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Ethnic Boundary Making: Institutions, Power, Networks
Andreas Wimmer
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Paperback. Series: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 b/w line, 2 b/w halftone. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
It is hard to avoid seeing ethnicity, race, or nationality wherever one looks. Differences in education, income, and health are often patterned along ethnic or racial lines. But how do we disentangle discrimmation and preferences for certain groups from the everyday working of labor markets and educational institutions or privileging family members or those with similar educational backgrounds? Drawing on a boundary-making perspective first championed by anthropologist Fredrick Barth, Andreas Wimmer introduces a new comparative theory of ethnicity. It explains precisely how and why ethnicity matters in certain societies and contexts but not in others, and why it is ... Read more
It is hard to avoid seeing ethnicity, race, or nationality wherever one looks. Differences in education, income, and health are often patterned along ethnic or racial lines. But how do we disentangle discrimmation and preferences for certain groups from the everyday working of labor markets and educational institutions or privileging family members or those with similar educational backgrounds? Drawing on a boundary-making perspective first championed by anthropologist Fredrick Barth, Andreas Wimmer introduces a new comparative theory of ethnicity. It explains precisely how and why ethnicity matters in certain societies and contexts but not in others, and why it is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199927395
SKU
V9780199927395
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About Andreas Wimmer
Andreas Wimmer is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of Politics at Princeton University. His research is aimed at understanding the dynamics of nation-state formation, ethnic boundary making and political conflict from a comparative perspective. He is author of Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflicts: Shadows of Modernity (Cambridge, 2002) and Waves of War: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in the ... Read more
Reviews for Ethnic Boundary Making: Institutions, Power, Networks
Ethnic Boundary Making has the makings of a classic. The author takes on a vast and important topic, provides a bold and ambitious theoretical agenda, and engages in theory development by convincingly confronting his hypotheses with data of various kinds. As he goes along, Wimmer explains the implications of his findings for a wide range of theories and debates in ... Read more