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Constructing Collective Identity

A Comparative Analysis of New Zealand Jews, Maori, and Urban Papua New Guineans

Hal B. Levine (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

179 Seiten

1997
Lang, Peter Frankfurt (Verlag)
978-3-631-31944-4 (ISBN)

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Constructing Collective Identity uses three richly detailed anthropological studies of ethnicity among New Zealand Jews, Maori, and urban Papua New Guineans to demonstrate that ethnicity is essentially a phenomenon of categorisation based on descent. The author maintains that the concept of ethnicity can be 'reconstructed' (rescued from its current 'deconstruction') by correcting the common tendency to confuse the rhetoric and elaborations of 'identity politics' with ethnicity itself. The Maori case study in particular shows how ethnicity has become 'culturalised' in New Zealand, and this provides a link, developed in the conclusion, between ethnicity and other forms of contested identity. The main theoretical contribution of the monograph is its development of the thesis that scholars need to integrate a cognitive perspective into the study of ethnicity in order to properly understand how ethnic categories develop and influence representations of identity, society and culture.

The Author: Hal B. Levine is an anthropologist who lectures at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of: Urbanization in Papua New Guinea and Stewart Island: Anthropological Perspectives on a New Zealand Fishing Community (with M.W. Levine); Far From the Promised Land; Being Jewish in New Zealand (with Ann Beaglehole); and numerous journals articles.

Contents: Three anthropological studies of ethnicity among New Zealand Jews, Maori, and Urban Papua New Guineans - Understanding the nature of ethnicity - 'Culturalised' ethnicity in New Zealand - Link between ethnicity and other forms of contested identity.

Zusatzinfo	3 fig.
Verlagsort	Frankfurt
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	3-631-31944-4 / 3631319444
ISBN-13	978-3-631-31944-4 / 9783631319444
Zustand	Neuware