Democracy and ethnography : constructing identities in multicultural liberal states /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Greenhouse, Carol J., 1950-, Kheshti, Roshanak
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Colección:SUNY series in national identities.
Temas:
1900-1999
Multiculturalism > United States.
Multiculturalism > Spain.
Democracy > United States > History > 20th century.
Democracy > Spain > History > 20th century.
Ethnology > United States.
Ethnology > Spain.
Multiculturalisme > États-Unis.
Multiculturalisme > Espagne.
Ethnologie > États-Unis.
Ethnologie > Espagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Democracy.
Ethnic relations.
Ethnology.
Multiculturalism.
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Aufsatzsammlung
Plurale samenleving.
Democratie.
Culturele identiteit.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Spain > Ethnic relations.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
Spain.
United States.
USA
Spanien
USA.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: The ethnography of democracy and difference
  • Part I. Diversity and equality in liberal debate ; 2. Diversity as American cultural category ; 3. The hypervisible and the masked: Some thoughts on the mutual embeddedness of "race" and "class" in the United States now ; 4. Democracy and cultural differences in the Spanish Constitution of 1978 ; 5. Disorderly differences: Recognition, accomodation, and American law
  • Part II. The making of official discourses of identity ; 6. American ethnogenesis and the 1990 census ; 7. Difference from the people's point of view ; 8. Porous borders: Discourses of difference in congressional hearings on immigration ; 9. To be Basque and to live in Basque country: The inequalities of difference ; 10. Acceptable difference: The cultural evolution of the model ethnic American citizen
  • Part III. Official discourses and professional practice ; 11. The role of folklore and popular culture in the construction of difference in Spain ; 12. Linguistic Constructions of difference and history of the U.S. law school classroom ; 13. From ethnography to clinical practice in the construction of the contempoary state
  • References
  • About the authors
  • Index.

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