Signifying Identities: Anthropological Perspectives on Boundaries and Contested Identities

This collection of extended papers examines the ways in which relations between national, ethnic, religious and gender groups are underpinned by each group's perceptions of their distinctive identities and of the nature of the boundaries which divide them. Questions of frontier and identity are theorised with reference to the Maori, Australian aborigines and Celtic groups.

The theoretical arguments and ethnographic perspectives of this book place it at the cutting edge of contemporary anthro...