The Ethnic Phenomenon

by Pierre Van Den Berghe

Overview

A gem of a book for scholars in race and ethnic relations and sociobiology. . . . Van den Berghe analyzes various forms that race and ethnic relations have displayed including colonial empires, slavery, middleman minorities, caste systems, and assimilation. The causes and consequences of these systems are brilliantly teased out employing historical and crosscultural examples. Libraries with any work at all on race and ethnic relations or sociobiology should acquire this book. Choice

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444015501
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/22/1981
Pages:	301
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

PIERRE L. VAN DEN BERGHE is the recipient of the Spivak Award from the American Sociological Association for sustained scholarly contributions throughout his career.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Theories and Ideologies of Ethnic Relations
An Explanatory Framework
Ethnicity as Kin Selection: The Biology of Nepotism
Ethnicity and Resource Competition: The Ecology of Territoriality and Specialization
Ethnicity and Coercion: The Politics of Hierarchy
Some Recurrent Situations
Colonial Empires
Slavery
Middleman Minorities
Caste
Consociationalism
Assimilation
The Formation, Persistence and Demise of Ethnicity
Ethnicity and Other Bases of Sociality
The Dynamics of Ethnicity
Bibliography
Index