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 69
... king is but the living representative . The king sym- bolizes the spirit of the Swazi nation ; called Ngwenyama ( Lion ) , the king is a lineal descendant of the founder of the dynasty and is at the apex of a system of graded prestige ...
... king is but the living representative . The king sym- bolizes the spirit of the Swazi nation ; called Ngwenyama ( Lion ) , the king is a lineal descendant of the founder of the dynasty and is at the apex of a system of graded prestige ...
Page 70
... king only one son . The king's mother on accession of her son to the throne becomes the second most important personage in the kingdom . When the king's mother dies , a classificatory mother , such as a mother's sister , is substituted ...
... king only one son . The king's mother on accession of her son to the throne becomes the second most important personage in the kingdom . When the king's mother dies , a classificatory mother , such as a mother's sister , is substituted ...
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... king's in - laws also receive royal favor . Obviously , not everyone in a nation of 300,000 can be a kinsman of the king ; but , thanks to polygyny , enough people belonging to enough commoner clans can trace a tie of blood or marriage ...
... king's in - laws also receive royal favor . Obviously , not everyone in a nation of 300,000 can be a kinsman of the king ; but , thanks to polygyny , enough people belonging to enough commoner clans can trace a tie of blood or marriage ...
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 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 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 relatively religious reproductive ruling class Rwanda situation slaves social societies sociobiology South Africa status stigma success Swazi territory trade traditional tropical Tuzi typically United University Press urban villages Western women
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Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka No preview available - 1996 |