The Anthropology of Ethnicity

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We can hardly imagine social theories and political developments these days without the notion of ethnicity. Yet it is only since the sixties that ethnicity was validated as a separate and independent concept within the social sciences. Twenty-five years after the publication of Barth's *emphasized text*Ethnic groups and boundaries*emphasized text*, one of the most influential writings on the subject, this book raises the issue of what has been accomplished in the study of ethnicity since then.