Ethnic Groups and Boundries

Ethnic Groups and Boundaries FREDRIK BARTH When published in Norway nearly thirty years ago, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked the transition to a new era of ethnic studies. Today this much-cited classic is regarded as the seminal text from which stems much current anthropological thinking about ethnicity Ethnic Groups and Boundartes opens with Barth's invaluable thirty-page essay that introduces readers to important theoretical issues in the analysis of ethnic groups. Following is a collection of seven essays-the results of a sympostum involving a small group of Scandinavian social anthro pologists-intended to illustrate the application of Barth's analytical viewpoints to different sides of the problems of polyethnic organization in various ethnographic areas. Including Norway, Sudan, Ethiopla, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Laos. "I share the widely held opinion that this book marked an epochal shift in the anthropological study of ethnicity. And, unlike so many other social science theories generated one, two or three decades ago, it has not become outdated -Katherine M. Verdery. Johns Hopkins University "It would be difficult to overstate the influence which this book, and especially Barth's introduction to it, has had on the anthropological study of ethnicity in general, and of ethnic identity in particular." -Anthony P. Cohen. University of Edinburgh "Barth went beyond existing conceptualizations in both depth and detail, theorizing ethnie identity within a wider set of arguments about social process and social forms." -Richard Jenkins, from Social Identity Waveland Press, Inc. ISBN: 9780881 339796