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Social Identity: Similarity, Alterity, and the In-Between Social Identity: Similarity, Alterity, and the In-Between
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Fluidity and Fixity Fluidity and Fixity
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Practice and Performance Practice and Performance
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Power and Position Power and Position
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Materialization Materialization
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Overdetermination Overdetermination
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Interrogating Ethnicity Interrogating Ethnicity
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Culture Concept to Boundary Maintenance to Primordial Bonds Culture Concept to Boundary Maintenance to Primordial Bonds
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Race and Nation, Class and Citizen: Whither Ethnicity? Race and Nation, Class and Citizen: Whither Ethnicity?
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Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
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Ethnogenesis Ethnogenesis
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1 Ethnogenesis and the Archaeology of Identity
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Published:March 2015
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Abstract
Identity is the means through which social subjects are constructed into relationships of similarity and difference. This chapter advocates theoretical pluralism in the study of identity. Theories of social iteration advanced by Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and Judith Butler are brought into dialogue with Michel Foucault, Gerald Sider, Clifford Geertz, and Arjun Appadurai’s theories of power and materiality. From this vantage point, the dichotomy between primordialist and instrumentalist models of ethnicity is false: neither can account for the persistence of ethnic distinction in certain historic moments and the rapid transformation of identities in others. The study of ethnogenesis adds a temporal component to theories of identity. Many researchers have argued that ethnogenesis is a form of subaltern resistance to external domination. This study challenges this view by examining a case in which ethnogenesis was a means through which colonial settlers achieved domination and control over indigenous populations.
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