The Ethnic PhenomenonA 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 |
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... biological trivial- ness of " racial " differences . Indeed , evolutionary biology and sociobiology are fully compatible with much contemporary " radical " thinking - and cer- tainly with Marxism with which it shares a materialist ...
... biological trivial- ness of " racial " differences . Indeed , evolutionary biology and sociobiology are fully compatible with much contemporary " radical " thinking - and cer- tainly with Marxism with which it shares a materialist ...
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... biological substra- tum . Culture grows out of biological evolution ; it does not wipe the bio- logical slate clean and start from scratch . Second , like all other organisms , we evolved in adaptive response to a multitude of ...
... biological substra- tum . Culture grows out of biological evolution ; it does not wipe the bio- logical slate clean and start from scratch . Second , like all other organisms , we evolved in adaptive response to a multitude of ...
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... biological evolution of all life forms takes place . Individuals , human or nonhuman , interact competitively or cooperatively to maximize their in- dividual fitness . They do so in three basic ways : through kin selection , reciprocity ...
... biological evolution of all life forms takes place . Individuals , human or nonhuman , interact competitively or cooperatively to maximize their in- dividual fitness . They do so in three basic ways : through kin selection , reciprocity ...
Contents
Theories and Ideologies | 1 |
The Biology of Nepotism | 15 |
The Ecology | 37 |
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19th century acculturation African Afrikaners American animals apartheid Arab Ashkenazim Asians assimilation Bambuti Bantu basic became become behavior Belgian Belgium Berghe bilingual biological blacks British capitalist chattel slavery clans class and ethnicity colonial common complex conflict conquered conquest consociational consociational democracies consociationalism countries created culture democracy descent developed distinct dominant E. O. Wilson ecological economic elite especially ethnic groups ethnic relations European example exploitation extended favor Flemish French Fulani genes genetic hapu Hausa hierarchy human Hutu ideology immigrants inclusive fitness Indian individual Israel Jews kin selection kinship Kuper labor language linguistic live male million minority multiethnic nation native nepotism organization pariah phenotypically plantation pluralism political polygyny population production Québec race racial racism relationship relatively religious reproductive ruling class Rwanda situation slaves social societies sociobiology South Africa status stigma success Swazi territory trade traditional tropical Tuzi typically United urban villages women
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Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka No preview available - 1996 |