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Afrikaners --- Ethnic identity

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In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of 'cultural intimacy'. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between state and citizen, and the notion of 'national character'. Herzfeld provides a developed theoretical framework and additional clarification of core concepts such as disemia, social poetics and structural nostalgia. The text has been fully updated in light of recent scholarship and events, including comment on Greece and the European Union. There is new material drawn from regions such as Thailand and China, and further consideration of religious intimacy and its impact on cities. The book improves our understanding of how states, societies and institutions function and illustrates the relevance of anthropology to contemporary issues such as globalization, censorship, ethnic conflict and nationalism.

Nation-state. --- Minorities. --- Group identity. --- Ethnicity.

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African diaspora --- Africans --- Africans --- Africans --- Africans --- Mediterranean Region --- Ethnic identity --- Ethnic identity --- History --- History

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Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully written work, renowned philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions. 'The Ethics of Identity' takes seriously both the claims of individuality--the task of making a life---and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves. What sort of life one should lead is a subject that has preoccupied moral and political thinkers from Aristotle to Mill. Here, Appiah develops an account of ethics, in just this venerable sense--but an account that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances, our individuality with our identities. As he observes, the question 'who' we are has always been linked to the question 'what' we are. Adopting a broadly interdisciplinary perspective, Appiah takes aim at the cliche;s and received ideas amid which talk of identity so often founders. Is "culture" a good? For that matter, does the concept of culture really explain anything? Is diversity of value in itself? Are moral obligations the only kind there are? Has the rhetoric of "human rights" been overstretched? In the end, Appiah's arguments make it harder to think of the world as divided between the West and the Rest between locals and cosmopolitans between Us and Them. The result is a new vision of liberal humanism--one that can accommodate the vagaries and variety that make us human.

General ethics --- Ethics --- Group identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Ethics. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Morale --- Identité collective --- Identité (Psychologie) --- Aspect moral --- Group identity - Moral and ethical aspects --- Identity (Psychology) - Moral and ethical aspects

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Blacks --- Blacks --- Slaves --- Ethnic identity --- Social conditions --- Social conditions