ANTH20011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tijaniyyah, Taylor & Francis, Berg Publishers
28 Jul 2018
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Especially in relation to colonialism, urbanisation and globalisation. Came into common use in the late 20th century. One of the common uses of ethnicity is to describe people from the mainstream e. g. ) Melb"s full of ethnics (ergo melb"s full of non-white people) Previously, anthropologists referred to tribes" rather than ethnic groups. Before the 1950s, people used to refer to tribes" - this was derived from colonialism. It conveys a sense of us (the advanced people) v them (the backwards people). In general ethnicity conveys no such developmental distinction. Urbanisation and globalisation leads to greater consciousness of difference. The conceptualisation of ethnicity in the social sciences. Especially the basic distinction between objectivist" and subjectivist" accounts. Ethnic groups are identified by a range of objective" criteria, notably: Manning-nash concept of bed, blood and cult" [manning-nash, d. (1989) the cauldron of. Ethnicity is an emic category of self ascription [eriksen, thomas h. 1993 ethnicity and.
