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Asian Ethnicity, Volume 5, Number 2, June 2004 Steve Fenton, Ethnicity, Polity Press, Cambridge, Blackwell, Malden, USA, 2003 xi 220 pp. Bibliography, index. ISBN 0-7456-2287-0 (hardback); 0-7456-2287-9 (paperback). UK price: £50 (hardback), £14.99 (paperback). This book belongs to a series that Polity Press has devoted to key concepts in the social sciences. Existing volumes take up such concepts as fundamentalism, democracy, power, nationalism and ‘the self’. The...
Asian Ethnicity, Volume 5, Number 2, June 2004 Steve Fenton, Ethnicity, Polity Press, Cambridge, Blackwell, Malden, USA, 2003 xi 220 pp. Bibliography, index. ISBN 0-7456-2287-0 (hardback); 0-7456-2287-9 (paperback). UK price: £50 (hardback), £14.99 (paperback). This book belongs to a series that Polity Press has devoted to key concepts in the social sciences. Existing volumes take up such concepts as fundamentalism, democracy, power, nationalism and ‘the self’. The books are extremely useful textbooks for social scientists, because they are written by specialists in a clear style that is appropriate for students and people who are anything but experts. This particular volume concerns ethnicity, as its title implies. It asks about the overlap and difference between concepts such as nation, race and ethnicity, the demise of the idea of ‘race’ that loomed so large in social science literature in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, and the impact of economics on questions that concern ethnicity. A whole chapter takes up the highly controversial question of whether ethnicity is primordial or socially constructed. Fenton devotes particular attention to issues connected with how the concept of ethnicity fits in with modernity or ‘late capitalist modernity’,
Asian Ethnicity – Taylor & Francis
Published: Jun 1, 2004
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