Re: ethnicity

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Hi all,

>y
>Rob Prince asks about anthro sources on ethnicity. Most good recent stuff
>is in the poli anth subfield, dealing with how ethnicity is negotiated
>and manipulated. A good start is Abner Cohen's work on "retribalization"
>also called ethnogenesis. Unfortunately, a lot of that work has
>not filtered out into the larger fields where folks still assume that
>"tribal" differences have always existed rather than being created to meet
>contemporary political needs.
>tk

You might also look at Geertz (1973) ch.10, or Barth (1970), for
starters... although hardly recent.

Bow Wow,
Maddog.

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