Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration
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anthropology
basis for exclusion
basis for inclusion
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challenging common assumptions
cultural anthropology
discourse on identity
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ethnic demographic studies
ethnicity
everyday politics
fitting in
intimate knowledge
local systems
nationalism
negotiation of political positions
religion
role of difference
role of sameness
social integration
social relationships
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- ISBN 9781789207651
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What does it mean to “fit in?” In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of sameness and difference as the basis for inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local systems, social relationships, and the negotiation of people’s positions in the everyday politics, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.
Günther Schlee is Director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Prior to this appointment he was a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bielefeld. His main publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (Manchester University Press, 1989), How Enemies Are Made: Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict (Berghahn Books, 2008) and Pastoralism and Politics (with Abdullahi A. Shongolo, James Currey, 2012).
