Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
When published in Norway nearly thirty years ago, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked the transition to a new era of ethnic studies. Today this much-cited classic is regarded as the seminal volume from which stems much current anthropological thinking about ethnicity. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries opens with Barth's invaluable thirty-page essay that introduces readers to important theoretical issues in the analysis of ethnic groups. Following is a collection of seven essays — the results of a symposium involving a small group of Scandinavian social anthropologists — intended to illustrate the application of Barth's analytical viewpoints to different sides of the problems of polyethnic organization in various ethnographic areas, including Norway, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Laos.
- Author
- Fredrik Barth
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 153
- Publisher
- Waveland Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780881339796
- Genres
- anthropology, sociology, college, academic, ethnicity, research
- Release date
- 1998
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