The rising tide of cultural pluralism : the nation-state at bay?
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The rising tide of cultural pluralism : the nation-state at bay?
University of Wisconsin Press, c1993
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Based on a Summer Seminar for College Teachers held in the summer of 1990
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780299138806
Description
Crawford Young and a panel of contributors here assess the changing impact of cultural pluralism on political processes around the world, specifically in the former Soviet Union, China, the United States, India, Ethiopia and Guatemala. The result is a survey of the dissolution of the nation-state system as we have known it. Young opens with an overview of the dramatic rise in the political significance of cultural pluralism and of scholars' changing understanding of what drives and shapes ethnic identification. Mark Beissinger explains the demise of the last great empire-state, the USSR, while Edward Friedman notes growing challenges to the apparent cultural homogeneity of China. Nader Entessar suggests contrasts in Azeri identity politics in Iran and the former USSR. Ronald Schmidt and Noel Kent explore the linguistic and racial dimensions of the rising multicultural currents in the United States. Douglas Spitz shows the extent of the decline of the old secular vision of India of the independence generation; Alan LeBaron traces the recent emergence of an assertive Mayan identity among a submerged populace in Guatemala, long thought to be destined for Ladinoization.
A case study of the diversity and uncertain future of Ethiopia emerges from four contrasting contributions: Tekle Woldemikael looks at the potential cultural tensions in Eritrea; Solomon Gashaw offers a central Ethiopian nationalist perspective; Herbert Lewis reflects the perspectives of a restless and disaffected periphery; and James Quirin provides an arresting explanation of the construction of identity amongst the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). Virginia Sapiro offers an original analysis of the interaction between cultural pluralism and gender.
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: pbk ISBN 9780299138844
Description
Crawford Young and a panel of contributors here assess the changing impact of cultural pluralism on political processes around the world, specifically in the former Soviet Union, China, the United States, India, Ethiopia and Guatemala. The result is a survey of the dissolution of the nation-state system as we have known it. Young opens with an overview of the dramatic rise in the political significance of cultural pluralism and of scholars' changing understanding of what drives and shapes ethnic identification. Mark Beissinger explains the demise of the last great empire-state, the USSR, while Edward Friedman notes growing challenges to the apparent cultural homogeneity of China. Nader Entessar suggests contrasts in Azeri identity politics in Iran and the former USSR. Ronald Schmidt and Noel Kent explore the linguistic and racial dimensions of the rising multicultural currents in the United States. Douglas Spitz shows the extent of the decline of the old secular vision of India of the independence generation; Alan LeBaron traces the recent emergence of an assertive Mayan identity among a submerged populace in Guatemala, long thought to be destined for Ladinoization. A case study of the diversity and uncertain future of Ethiopia emerges from four contrasting contributions: Tekle Woldemikael looks at the potential cultural tensions in Eritrea; Solomon Gashaw offers a central Ethiopian nationalist perspective; Herbert Lewis reflects the perspectives of a restless and disaffected periphery; and James Quirin provides an arresting explanation of the construction of identity amongst the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). Virginia Sapiro offers an original analysis of the interaction between cultural pluralism and gender.
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