Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States

Musik: Kheshti, Roshanak / Herausgeber: Greenhouse, Carol J.

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Produktbeschreibung

These ethnographic essays by scholars in anthropology, law, political science, folklore, public administration, medicine, and linguistics show contemporary connections between liberal democracy and ethnography. Each perspective explores a modern democratic site -- courts, classrooms, legislatures, the media, academic professions, and bureaucratic routines.Together, they expose a contradiction -- that official constructions of identity treat "differences" as both natural characteristics of individuals and the collective basis of interest groups. This contradiction hampers liberal states' efforts to acknowledge and accommodate the cultural diversity of citizens. They also show that official categories do not monopolize the available terms of understanding and identification, given the richness and flexibility of people's self-identifications outside official spheres. This recognition implies an ethnographic project at the heart of democratic change.

Produktdetails

• Suny National Identities
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 305
• Erscheinungstermin: September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780791439647
• ISBN-10: 079143964X
• Artikelnr.: 21014731

Autorenporträt

Carol J. Greenhouse is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University at Bloomington. She is the author of Praying for Justice: Faith, Hope and Community in an American Town and A Moment's Notice: Time Politics Across Cultures, and coauthor (with Barbara Yngvesson and David Engel) of Law and Community in Three American Towns.