COLUMN: Ethnicity is more than genetics

University Wire;  May 11, 2000 ;     700+ words ......s knowledge of their place of origin and ethnicity are rather important in establishing their identity. What are the roots of ethnicity? What are the components that make a person a certain ethnicity? Some may quickly answer that ethnicity is...

Reconstructing ethnicity.

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......This is especially so in regard to ethnicity. The news is full of ethnic cleansing...while the anthropologists stress that ethnicity is 'invented' and set out to 'decentre...notion (e.g. Hanson 1989). Another sign of ethnicity's declining conceptual importance in...

Did Paul Value Ethnicity?

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......related question whether Paul valued ethnicity. It is well, nonetheless, to keep...s caution in mind. Our use of "ethnicity" to mean a people's unique identity...elements that we associate with ethnicity are not found in the ancient world...

Artisans and the Marketing of Ethnicity: Globalization, Indigenous...

Ethnic Studies Review;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Ethnicity 2007 As a constructed category of human difference, 'ethnicity' has given way to 'culture' in its shared genealogy in...ethnic cleansing', debates on immigration, and the use of ethnicity as both a dependent and independent variable in research...

Affect, Identity, and Ethnicity: Towards a Social-Psychological Model of...

Ethnic Studies Review;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Geertz it has been common to refer to ethnicity as a bond, a tie, or an attachment. Shils...to emphasize the emotional quality of ethnicity as an explanation of its persistence...emotional and not rational phenomenon, ethnicity was expected to decline and disappear...

Ethnicity in Africa: Towards a Positive Approach.(Book Review)

African Studies Quarterly;  March 22, 2003 ;     646 words ......120 pp. Despite its resilient reality, ethnicity and tribalism have not received adequate...Seyoum attempts a systematic analysis of ethnicity in Africa since the pre-colonial period...states must directly confront the issue of ethnicity, irrespective of its negative connotations...

Ethnicity and the geometry of power: the aesthetics of ethnicity in the...

Critical Arts;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...`ETHNICITY' IS GENERALLY understood to be one `part...this argument that categories such as ethnicity (as well as other similar types of social...aesthetic terms. In order to understand ethnicity, we must seek to understand why it is...

Ethnicity and nationalism: anthropological...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ERIKSEN, THOMAS HYLLAND, Ethnicity and nationalism: anthropological...sterling]14.99 (paper) FENTON, STEVE, Ethnicity. xii. 200 pp., bibliogr. Cambridge...and sociology courses. Eriksen's Ethnicity and nationalism is ten years older...

Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh and Will Kymlicka (eds), Ethnicity and...

Africa;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......DICKSON EYOH and WILL KYMIACKA (eds), Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa. Oxford: James...elicited as much scholarly attention as ethnicity and democracy in Africa. This topic is...coherence to the multitudinous literature on ethnicity and democracy while at the same time...

Psychometric properties of an index measure of ethnicity in a bicultural...

Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......measurement issues related to the study of ethnicity and its impact on consumer behaviour. It first reviews the concept of ethnicity and delineates its important characteristics...measurement assessment is made on six ethnicity indicators based on these characteristics...

Colin Mackerras, editor. Ethnicity in Asia.(Book Review)

China Review International;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Colin Mackerras, editor. Ethnicity in Asia. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon...ISBN 0-415-25817-0. In a single volume Ethnicity in Asia gives the reader an authoritative and comprehensive overview of ethnicity in the modern states of East and Southeast...

Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction.(Book...

Church History;  December 1, 2005 ;     630 words ...Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction. Edited by Craig R...approach to the intersection of race, ethnicity, and religion. Rather than concentrating...For three key terms, myth, race, and ethnicity, Prentiss provides concise working definitions...

CENTRAL ASIA: ; Ethnicity & gender; To understand terrorism, we first must...

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  November 18, 2001 ;     629 words ......noted that understanding the role of ethnicity in the Mideast and Central Asia may well...to understand the complex phenomena of ethnicity and its link to violence in Central Asia...too often ignored, between gender and ethnicity. When we hear television news reporters...

Rwanda's cure: 'There is no ethnicity here'

International Herald Tribune;  April 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ......can recite Rwanda's official view toward ethnicity with great precision: ''There is no ethnicity here. We are all Rwandan.'' Twahrwa, a Hutu...frenzy of killing, is now trying to make ethnicity a thing of the past. There are no Hutu in...

THE POLITICS OF INTERPRETATION: THE RHETORIC OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN PAUL

Journal of Biblical Literature;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......writings and early Christian history, ethnicity is implicitly or explicitly defined as...bodily characteristics we associate with ethnicity and race. After all, Paul's writings...Gal 3:28 when she writes that "class, ethnicity, and gender are . . . specifically singled...