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

1 31

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,