Research Catalog

Title

Perplexities of identification : anthropological studies in cultural differentiation and the use of resources / edited by Henk Driessen and Ton Otto.

Publication

Aarhus [Denmark] ; Oakville, CT : Aarhus University Press, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Driessen, Henk.
• Otto, Ton.

Description

265 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Ethnicity > Congresses
• Ethnology > Congresses
• Social evolution > Congresses
• 73.85 cultural psychology
• Ethnicity
• Ethnology
• Social evolution
• Cultural identity

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congresses (form)

Note

• Based on papers presented at a conference entitled Multi-Tiered Identifications and Cultural Resources held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 16-17 January 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Protean perplexities: an introduction / Ton Otto, Henk Driessen -- Relatives and rivals: the narcissism of minor differences / Anton Blok -- The two deaths of Basem Rishmawi: identity constructions and reconstructions in a Muslim-Christian Palestinian community / Glenn Bowman -- A case of identities: multiple personality disorder / Poul Pedersen -- Ritual and conflicting identifications: the case of a female bricoleur / Louise Thoonen -- Indigenous struggles and the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie / Jonathan Friedman -- Dissimulations: representing Ladakhi identity / Martijn van Beek -- 'We are one but still different': communality and diversity in aboriginal Australia / Ad Borsboom, Janneke Hulsker -- Cultural resources of elite identity: the vicissitudes of the Polish gentry / Longina Jakubowska -- Thinking together what falls apart: some reflections on the concept of identity / Hans Siebers.

ISBN

• 8772888180
• 9788772888187

OCLC

• ocm44947423
• 44947423
• SCSB-1132214

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library