The Politics of Ethnic Consciousness
The Politics of Ethnic Consciousness criticizes essentialist and unitary notions of ethnicity and shows the complex interaction between historical processes, recent political developments and competing views within and about ethnic groups. Welcoming the s
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Also by Cora Govers and Hans Vermeulen
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ETHNICITY (editors)
The Politics of Ethnic Consciousness Edited by
Cora Govers
Research Coordinator Netherlands Foundationfor the Advancement ofTropical Research (WOTRO) University ofLeiden
and Hans Vermeulen
Co-director of Research Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies University of Amsterdam
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Contents List ofMaps
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on the Contributors
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1 From Political Mobilization to the Politics of Consciousness Hans Vermeulen and Cora Covers
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Creating Ethnic Identities in North-western Ghana Carola Lentz
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3 Changing History: Ethnic
Identity Management in Trieste Elke-Nicole Kappus
90
4 Ethnicity, Language and Politics in North-east Turkey Chris Hann
121
5 Ethnicity as a Political Tool for Indigenous
6
Peoples Fran(:oise Morin and Bernard Saladin d'Anglure
157
The Making of Egyptians in Kosovo and Macedonia Cer Duijzings
194
7 The Struggle between the Lion and the Tiger 8
Peter Kloos
223
Mauritian Society between the Ethnic and the Non-Ethnic Thomas Hylland Eriksen
250
9 The New Politics ofBlack Culture in Bahia, Brazil Livio Sansone
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Citizenship, Nationality,
