The book addresses key concepts of modern anthropology like "difference" and "identity" in the light of ethnographic evidence from various local settings stretching from Morocco to Indonesia. As the antagonistic and destructive aspects of social identification are also discussed, the book is a contribution to conflict theory as it provides elements of orientation in a world marked by a proliferation of ethnic movements and of nationalism which become more narrow and more aggressive.
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Gunther Schlee is Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
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The political map of the world in the 1990s has undergone changes which in their speed and extent may be comparable to the amount of re-colouring and renaming necessitated by the acceleration phase of decolonisation in the 60s but to no other phase of human history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
missionary orthodoxy, identitarian discourses, exclusivist rhetorics, common demarcation, islamist project, islamist discourses, young retainer, islamist tendencies, imagined differences, segmentary lineage system, paramilitary organisations, republican discourses, segmentary societies, old retainer, islamist movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland, New York, Han Chinese, Reverend Suprapto, New Town, Ali Mahdi, Ibn Khaldun, Horn of Africa, Siad Barre, Africa Confidential, North Africa, Chinese Muslims, Addis Ababa, Habr Gidir, Northern Irish, Quarles van Ufford, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, American Anthropologist, Southeast Asia, The Editor, Karl-Heinz Bechtold, Nusa Penida, Bedouin of Cyrenaica New!
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The political map of the world in the 1990s has undergone changes which in their speed and extent may be comparable to the amount of re-colouring and renaming necessitated by the acceleration phase of decolonisation in the 60s but to no other phase of human history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
missionary orthodoxy, identitarian discourses, exclusivist rhetorics, common demarcation, islamist project, islamist discourses, young retainer, islamist tendencies, imagined differences, segmentary lineage system, paramilitary organisations, republican discourses, segmentary societies, old retainer, islamist movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland, New York, Han Chinese, Reverend Suprapto, New Town, Ali Mahdi, Ibn Khaldun, Horn of Africa, Siad Barre, Africa Confidential, North Africa, Chinese Muslims, Addis Ababa, Habr Gidir, Northern Irish, Quarles van Ufford, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, American Anthropologist, Southeast Asia, The Editor, Karl-Heinz Bechtold, Nusa Penida, Bedouin of Cyrenaica New!
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- Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology) by E. R. Leach on page 53, page 267, and page 277
- Imagining India by Ronald Inden on page 7, page 30, and page 120
- Middle East Review: All the Central Asia States of the Former USSR, Plus Countries Such as Libya, Egypt and Algeria by Hunter Publishing on page 80, and page 211
- The Invention of Tradition (Canto) by Eric Hobsbawm on page 52, and page 152
- The Anthropology of Violence by David Riches on page 4, and page 31
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- Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang by Christian Tyler in Back Matter
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