| Description |
234 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Chicago studies in practices of meaning |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"John and Jean Comaroff have compressed a great many scintillating ideas into this book-length essay on ethnicity and its current transmutations. Drawing on examples from across the globe, they offer a powerful new hypothesis about why ethnicity refuses to succumb to modernization, and indeed how law, neoliberal markets, and new forms of possessive nominalism make ethnicity a critical element of the social logic of commodification. Their insights have the potential to spark new debates over a range of related issues in the study of global modernity, and will be read with profit by a wide range of critical scholars in both the social sciences and the humanities who are struggling to understand the many lives of ethnicity."--Arjun Appadurai. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Three or Four Things about Ethno-futures -- Questions of Theory -- Commodifying Descent, American-style -- A Tale of Two Ethnicities -- Nationality, Inc. ; Divinity, Inc. ; and Other Futures. |
| Subject |
Ethnicity.
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Ethnicity -- Economic aspects.
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Ethnicity -- Economic aspects -- South Africa.
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| Added Author |
Comaroff, Jean.
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| ISBN |
9780226114729 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0226114724 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780226114712 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226114716 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
2955584 |
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CDX 8852126 |
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BWX R9794045 |
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CDX 8852125 |
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NZ1 13042064 |
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NLGGC 319871045 |
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AU@ 000043441754 |
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