Creating Ethnicity: The Process of Ethnogenesis (Frontiers of Anthropology - Vol. 5)

Eugeen E. Roosens

ISBN 10: 080393422X / ISBN 13: 9780803934221

Published by Sage Publications, Inc., Newbury Park, CA, New Delhi, India, London, 1990

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167 pp. Vol. 5 issue only! Essentially a great copy with clean text and crisp pages. An ex-university-library copy (The Wollman Library, Barnard College, New York, NY) with all or some of the typical, common, usual and standard signs (stamps, stickers, envelope, etc.). Extra mylar wrapper. Seller Inventory # 2iiiBf0049

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Title: Creating Ethnicity: The Process of ...

Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc., Newbury Park, CA, New Delhi, India, London

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Edition: Copyright © 1989 by Sage Publications, I

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Synopsis:

Creating Ethnicity raises the important question of `what is ethnic?′ Using case studies from Canada, Zaire, Belgium and Bolivia, Roosens shows that ethnicity does not always stem from ancient tradition, but can be shaped, modified, recreated or even manufactured in modern society. The author largely focuses on the Huron Indians of Quebec, an ethnic group that had all but disappeared, but which manufactured an ethnic tradition almost from scratch in the midst of a modern, industrialized nation. They are contrasted with other ethnic groups in other countries, whose paths to ethnic identity were very different. Finally, Roosens examines a contemporary European city, Brussels, and shows how various ethnic minorities preserved, shaped and generated their own identity in a multi-ethnic society. From these examples Roosens develops a theory of ethnic culture and how it is manifest in the modern world.