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The pity of it all : polarisation of racial and ethnic relations.
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ISBN: 0816608172 Year: 1977 Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota

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The accommodation of cultural diversity : case studies
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ISBN: 0333763076 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): St. Martin's


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Modern African history : some historiographical observations.
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ISSN: 00806714 ISBN: 9171061665 Year: 1979 Publisher: Uppsala Scandinavian Institute of African Studies

Available light : anthropological reflections on philosophical topics
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ISBN: 0691089566 0691049742 1400823404 1283057948 9786613057945 140081412X 1400816009 9780691089560 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremost spokesperson of his generation of scholars, those who came of age after World War II. His reflections are written in a style that both entertains and disconcerts, as they engage us in topics ranging from moral relativism to the relationship between cultural and psychological differences, from the diversity and tension among activist faiths to "ethnic conflict" in today's politics. Geertz, who once considered a career in philosophy, begins by explaining how he got swept into the revolutionary movement of symbolic anthropology. At that point, his work began to encompass not only the ethnography of groups in Southeast Asia and North Africa, but also the study of how meaning is made in all cultures--or, to use his phrase, to explore the "frames of meaning" in which people everywhere live out their lives. His philosophical orientation helped him to establish the role of anthropology within broader intellectual circles and led him to address the work of such leading thinkers as Charles Taylor, Thomas Kuhn, William James, and Jerome Bruner. In this volume, Geertz comments on their work as he explores questions in political philosophy, psychology, and religion that have intrigued him throughout his career but that now hold particular relevance in light of postmodernist thinking and multiculturalism. Available Light offers insightful discussions of concepts such as nation, identity, country, and self, with a reminder that like symbols in general, their meanings are not categorically fixed but grow and change through time and place. This book treats the reader to an analysis of the American intellectual climate by someone who did much to shape it. One can read Available Light both for its revelation of public culture in its dynamic, evolving forms and for the story it tells about the remarkable adventures of an innovator during the "golden years" of American academia.


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The ethnically diverse city
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ISBN: 3830526644 9783830526643 383051641X 9783830516415 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin : BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag,

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Hauptbeschreibung Since the appearance of the post-colonial migrants and the guestworkers in the European societies, the cities have been the place to organize the social peace between people with different social and cultural backgrounds. Today's diversity however seems to be more related to the transnationalisation of urban life and the increasing opportunities of networking and acting in a globalizing world. This book contains case studies with regard to different aspects from an observable ethnically diverse city. With contributions by authors of various disciplines and


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Een leeuw in een kooi : de grenzen van het multiculturele Vlaanderen.
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ISBN: 9789085421894 Year: 2009 Publisher: Antwerpen Meulenhoff/Manteau

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Dit boek wijzigt op radicale wijze de termen waarin het debat tot nu toe gevoerd is. Het geeft een baanbrekend perspectief op de multiculturele samenleving in Vlaanderen en bespreekt een reeks heikele thema's, gaande van religie, feminisme, kolonialisme en klasse tot identiteitspolitiek. Hier wordt de controverse niet uit de weg gegaan. Het debat over een multicultureel Vlaanderen gaat in feite over (de grenzen van) 'de Vlaamse cultuur'. Het is tevens een debat dat tegenstellingen tussen conservatief en progressief, tussen rechts en links, overschrijdt (Bron: covertekst)

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