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Ethnicity and Nation Building in the Nordic World
Contributors review the historical experiences and the modern roles of ethnic minorities in the emergence of nationalism in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. They show how Nordic countries provide models for the study of ethnicity in other Old World countries based on integral nationality, and examine nationalism and territorial ethnic minorities in various areas of the region. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Seed and the Soil
How do the metaphors we use to describe procreation affect our view of the relative worth of each gender? Carol Delaney discloses the powerful meanings condensed in the seemingly innocent images of "seed" and "soil." Drawing on her work in a small Turkish village of Sunni Muslims, she shows us that the images are categorically different, hierarchically ordered, and unequally valued. The ways in which the creation of a child is understood in Turkey furnish a key to understanding a whole range of Turkish attitudes toward sexuality and gender, honor and shame, authority and submission, time and space, inside and outside, open and closed. Moreover, the symbols and meanings by which they represent procreation provide the means for understanding relationships between such seemingly disparate elements as the body, family, house, village, nation, this-world and other-world. Delaney points out that these symbols do not embellish reality; they provide the key to a particular conception of it, a conception that gives coherence to social life. The patterns revealed are not distinctly Turkish; they also comment on some of our own deeply-held assumptions and values about procreation.
Ibss: Anthropology: 1978
First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Bilingualism Or Not
This book deals with bilingualism, particularly as it relates to migrants and indigenous minorities. The book begins with a "purely" linguistic coverage of bilingualism and then deals with the prerequisites and consequences of bilingualism from the perspectives of psychology and pedagogy.
The Call of the Homeland
This book brings together an array of distinguished scholars to consider diaspora nationalism. Through theoretical, typological and case-specific essays that discuss the Jewish, Greek, Armenian, Irish, Turkish, Sikh, Ukrainian, Hindu, Pentecostal and Muslim diasporas, the book shows the varieties and qualities of attachment of diaspora communities to their ancestral homelands, and the role that hostlands as well as the immigrants play in the form and intensity of these attachments. Setting contemporary diaspora nationalisms in the context of globalisation, with its ever-developing methods of transportation and communication, the book further shows the emergence of new concepts of diaspora - new notions of being at home and away from home - and of new ways of creating and sustaining ethnic networks and contact with the homeland, such as the internet and tourism.
Under One Roof
Results of a longitudal study of Turkish immigrants-children in Sweden. The first phase (1978-81) examines a home language program in a Swedish elementary school. The second phase analyses the reflections of the now young adults on their past as students in the Turkish school in the Swedish school (mid-1990s).
Verhängnis Kultur
Ethnologische Untersuchungen zeigen, dass sich der Mensch vom ersten Artefakt an abhängig von seinen Schöpfungen machte. In der Folge verstrickte er sich zunehmend in ihrer Formenvielfalt und Komplexität, um allmählich die Kontrolle über sie zu verlieren. Daher bestimmt nicht die Evolution, sondern Devolution den Gang der Kulturgeschichte. Aufklärung und Industrialisierung führten in Europa zu der überzeugung, die kulturelle Entwicklung verlaufe insgesamt fortschrittlich. Klaus E. Müller kann durch eingehende ethnologisch-kulturhistorische Analysen nachweisen, dass eher das Gegenteil der Fall ist. Seiner ursprünglichen Instinktsicherheit beraubt, war der Mensch von Anbeginn an auf künstliche Hilfsmittel angewiesen – auf materielle Gerätschaften, Praktiken des Nahrungserwerbs und soziale Institutionen ebenso wie Weltanschauungskonzepte zur Begründung sowohl seines eigenen Daseins als auch der Naturphänomene. Mit der fortschreitenden Vervielfältigung der Artefakte wuchs die Abhängigkeit von ihnen, durch ihre Kombinationen zu immer komplexeren Systemen deren Störanfälligkeit, so dass ein Zusammenburch unausweichlich erscheint.
Women on the Move
UNESCO pub. Study of social changes and cultural changes affecting the social role and social status of women - examines economic role of rural women and urban woman workers; stresses need to help women benefit from structural changes and agrarian reform; analyses the causes and effects of rural migration and international migration; discusses the impact of labour force participation on traditional family value systems, etc. Graphs, references.
