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Ethnicity
Oxford, [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.Although the term 'ethnicity' is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and continent, and have played an important role in all societies. The sense of a common ethnicity remains a major focus of identification by individuals. Ethnic community and identity are often associated with conflict, particularly with political struggles in various parts of the world. However, there is no essential connection between ethnicity and conflict, and relations may in fact be peaceful and cooperative. This Oxford Reader includes extracts by all the major contributors to debates on ethnicity, including Weber, Brass, Hechter, and Horowitz. The articles offer explanations for the contentious nature of ethnicity, its worldwide effects, and the possible means for overcoming conflicts.
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Ethnicity
Fenton, Steve, 1942-Cambridge : Polity ; Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, c2003.In this concise and accessible introduction, Steve Fenton navigates the reader through 100 years of literature on ethnicity. Drawing on a wider range of theorists and illustrations from around the world, Fenton explores and clarifies the core meanings and the shifting ground of this contested concept. He shows how race, ethnicity and nation must be regarded as distinguishable at the margins but otherwise representing a closely related set of images and realities. From here he raises the question of the centrality of ethnic difference: Does it matter? When does it matter? Is it as important as many have assumed? The answer is that its importance can only be understood within a wider context of the culturally and socially subversive consequences of late modernity and a triumphant capitalist world order. In this way, this book re-connects the discourse of ethnicity to a series of other discourses from which it has become detached. Ethnicity will be an invaluable text for students of sociology, politics and international relations coming to the subject for the first time. It will also be enjoyed by the interested general reader, and its innovative and challenging approach will appeal to more advanced scholars of race and ethnicity.
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Ethnicity, Guatemala, 2014
East View Cartographic, Inc and Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (Guatemala)2014This polygon shapefile contains statistics on ethnicity from the 2014 Census of Guatemala. The census information was collected by the Instituto Na...
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Ethnicity, Guyana, 2012
East View Cartographic, Inc and Guyana. Bureau of Statistics2012This polygon shapefile contains statistics on ethnicity from the 2012 Guyana Population and Housing Census. The census information was collected by...
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Ethnicity, Paraguay, 2002
East View Cartographic, Inc and Paraguay. División de Estadística y Censos2002This polygon shapefile contains statistics on ethnicity from the 2002 Census of Paraguay. The census information was collected by the Division de E...
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