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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Page 105
... entire country is a vast labor reservoir . In some of the more complex systems of labor migration , entire territories serve as labor reservoirs for more " advanced " ones , e.g. Upper Volta for Ghana and the Ivory Coast , or Malawi and ...
... entire country is a vast labor reservoir . In some of the more complex systems of labor migration , entire territories serve as labor reservoirs for more " advanced " ones , e.g. Upper Volta for Ghana and the Ivory Coast , or Malawi and ...
Page 114
... entire conquered groups to relocate . It is true that such situations have been called slavery , as with the Jews in Egypt and Babylonia . I suspect , however , that so long as the basic kinship and social structure of the con- quered ...
... entire conquered groups to relocate . It is true that such situations have been called slavery , as with the Jews in Egypt and Babylonia . I suspect , however , that so long as the basic kinship and social structure of the con- quered ...
Page 147
... entire coast of East Africa from the Horn to Mozambique for approximately 3000 years , and the Arab influence was dominant on that coast and its off - shore islands , such as Zanzibar and Pemba , for several centuries before European ...
... entire coast of East Africa from the Horn to Mozambique for approximately 3000 years , and the Arab influence was dominant on that coast and its off - shore islands , such as Zanzibar and Pemba , for several centuries before European ...
Contents
Theories and Ideologies | 1 |
The Biology of Nepotism | 15 |
The Ecology | 37 |
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Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka No preview available - 1996 |