Week 7

Have you answered the course questions What is Ethnicity? and What is Race?

Essay Abstracts

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Lecture Reading

Baumann, Gerd. 1999. The Multicultural Riddle. ‘Ethnicity: Blood or Wine?’
Haviland, W. 1994. Anthropology (eighth edition). Harcourt Brace. Chapter 13 ‘Modern human diversity’, pp. 311-334)
Williams, B. 1989. ‘A class act: anthropology and the race to nation across ethnic terrain’. Annual Review of Anthropology 18
Wade, P. 1993. ‘”Race”, nature and culture’, Man, vol. 28 (1): 17-34

Summary of Lecture

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Seminar Reading

Wolf, E.R. 1994. ‘Perilous ideas: race, culture, people’. Current Anthropology, vol. 35(1): 1-12. Direct Link.

Wallman, S. 1978. ‘The boundaries of “race”: processes of ethnicity in England’, Man, vol. 13 (2):200-217. Direct Link.

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Summaries and Notes from Seminar and Reading

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External Materials and Links

  • The American Anthropological Association's Understanding Race project. I recommend that you browse through the resources on this site for a better understanding of anthropological ideas of race and how these anthropological ideas can be made publicly accessible.
  • In Thursday's afternoon's seminar this week, I mentioned a lecture that took place on Thursday evening which might have been of interest. Here are the details on that as promised: Professor Ferran Requejo, from the University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, gave a lecture on Liberal and Federal Deficits in Multi-national Democracies: The Case of Catalonia and the Spanish Estado de las Autonomias. Feel free to Google the author and the title of the lecture to find other resources.
  • Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, C. and Yolanda T. Moses. 1997. "Reestablishing "Race" in Anthropological Discourse", American Anthropologist. 99(3): 517 - 533.

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