A cross-disciplinary work which provides a critical review of the anthropological study of politics in the English-speaking world from 1879 to the present. It describes for three eras both what anthropologists have said about politics and the events that have shaped their concerns.
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John Ure has travelled with the Bedouin of the Arabian peninsular, the Moors and Tuareg of the Sahara, migratory pastoral tribes of southern Iran, and the Mongol horsemen and Tartar descendents of Central Asia. He also writes of the eccentric Europeans who sought out nomads - exiles from high society, like Lady Hester Stanhope and the Hon Jane Digby; adventurers Richard Burton and T. E. Lawrence; and, distinguished figures like Vita Sackville-West, Freya Stark and Bruce Chatwin, and oddities - a tetchy Consul Abbot in Persia, or two missionary ladies in the Gobi Desert. Often stranger than the exotic peoples they visited, John Ure brings them to life with practised skill and humour.
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Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fuelled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of significant portions of the world's population. Television permits individuals around the world to learn about the cultures and lifestyles of peoples of physically distant lands. These developents give real meaning to the notion of a global village. Peoples of the world are growing closer in new and increasingly important ways. The essays in Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective lucidly explore some of the complexities of the persistence and re-emergence of race and ethnicity as major lines of divisiveness around the world. Contributors analyse manifestations of race-based movements for political empowerment in Europe and Latin America as well as racial intolerance in these same settings. Attention is also given to the conceptual complexities of multidimensional and shared cultural roots of the overlapping phenomena of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, and ideology. The book greatly informs discussions of race and ethnicity in the international context and provides an interesting perspective against which to view America's changing problem of race. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective is a timely, thought-provoking volume that will be of immense value to ethnic studies specialists, African American studies scholars, political scientists, historians, and sociologists.
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• Part I. Anthropology:
• 1. Constructing a British identity--
• 2. American diversity-- Part II. Biology:
• 3. In search of a biology of race--
• 4. The limit of traditional reform--
• 5. Mitigating racial differences-- Part III. Politics:
• 6. Confronting racism: scientists as politicians-- Epilogue.
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This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists who wrote between the wars, he argues that the impetus for the shift in ideologies came from the inclusion of outsiders (women, Jews, and leftists) who infused greater egalitarianism into scientific discourse. But even though the emerging view of race was constrained by a scientific language, he shows that modern theorists were as much influenced by social and political events as were their predecessors.
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• La Société eugéniste et la Eugenics Review dans la tourmente des années trente /
• Janie Mortier
• Cacher le corps criminel : 1868 ou la fin des pendaisons publiques en Angleterre / Neil Davie
• Esclavage et complémentarité des races au XIXe siècle : le point de vue de l'Ecossais Thomas Carlyle / Catherine Heyrendt
• Le multiculturalisme dans le système éducatif de l'Ontario / Marie-Claude Barbier
• Des autochtones en pays de colonisation : questions de statut et d'identité / Marine Le Puloch
• L'art : dernier rempart de l'identité amérindienne? / Gérard Selbach
• Racisme et eugénisme dans l'utopie américaine au tournant du XIXe et du XXe Siècle / Catherine Durieux
• Jack London, le surhomme et le corps : légende et réalités / Noëlle de Chambrun
• Le "sang-mêlé", le fantasme et l'homosexualité : étude d'une analogie freudienne à trois termes / Jean-Paul Rocchi.

This book presents a list of chapters that introduce a life-long career of ethnographic works carried out by a leading Israeli anthropologist. It presents Moshe Shokeid's explorations, discoveries, and feelings about the vicissitudes of social life which he closely observed in three major arenas of contemporary Jewish life: Moroccan Jews who immigrated from Atlas Mountains to become farmers in the semi-arid Negev fields; Israeli-born citizens, who left their homes to start a new life in America; and, finally, American gay Jews who chose to preserve their cultural heritage and maintain spiritual synagogue life as part of the mosaic of New York Jews. The panorama of Shokeid's ethnographic journeys ends with a few chapters that display his methods of research and his personal experiences as participant observer among his fellow Jews in their unique path to promote their social and spiritual aspirations.
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