TY  - BOOK
AU  - Albiez-Wieck,Sarah
AU  - Antweiler,Christoph
AU  - Becker,Anja Katharina
AU  - Büschges,Christian
AU  - Feyissa,Dereje
AU  - Gabbert,Wolfgang
AU  - Holst,Frederik
AU  - Krämer,Mario
AU  - Manke,Albert
AU  - O'Toole,Rachel Sarah
AU  - Pelican,Michaela
AU  - Pohl,Walter
AU  - Schwarz,Tobias
AU  - Sáez-Arance,Antonio
AU  - Takezawa,Yasuko
AU  - University of Cologne Forum »Ethnicity as a Political Resource«
AU  - Widlok,Thomas
AU  - Yuan,Li Xi
AU  - Zeleke,Meron
ED  - Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Frontlist Collection
TI  - Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods 
T2  - Global Studies
SN  - 9783839430132
AV  - GN495.6 .E8842 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - transcript Verlag, 
KW  - Cultural pluralism
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Interdisciplinary research
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Multiculturalism
KW  - Africa
KW  - Asia
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Cultural Theory
KW  - Culture
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Europe
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Policy
KW  - Political Theory
KW  - Politics
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface of the editors --; Ethnicity as a political resource in different academic disciplines --; Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource viewed by scholars from different academic disciplines --; Ethnicity from an anthropological perspective --; More than meets the eye --; The universal and the particular --; Rethinking 'race' from Asian perspectives --; Ethnicity as social deixis --; Ethnicity as a political resource in different regions of the world --; Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource in different regions of the world --; Politicizing ethnicity - ethnicizing politics --; The contestation over the indigenous in Africa --; Ethnicity as a political resource --; Ethnicity or nationality? --; Ethnicity as a political resource across different historical periods --; Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource across different historical periods --; Ethnicity in history --; Political uses of ethnicity in early medieval Europe --; The work of race in colonial Peru --; Araucanos or 'Mapuches'? --; Chinese in the Cuban revolution --; Authors; Open Access
N2  - How is ethnicity viewed by scholars of different academic disciplines? Can its emergences be compared in various regions of the world? How can it be conceptualized with specific reference to distinct historical periods?This book shows in a uniquely and innovative way the broad range of approaches to the political uses of ethnicity, both in contemporary settings and from a historical perspective. Its scope is multidisciplinary and spans across the globe.It is a suitable resource for teaching material. With its short contributions, it conveys central points of how to understand and analyze ethnicity as a political resource
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839430132?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839430132
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839430132/original
ER  -