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Class, Nation and Identity
Jeff Pratt
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Description for Class, Nation and Identity
Paperback. Examines the class dimensions of identity politics and the symbols and meaning inherent in class movements. Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 222 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPA; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
Political movements across the world have such diverse characteristics and aims that it is difficult to examine them as a collective group. Movements that are class-based are usually portrayed as formed by economic categories of people driven by material interests. By contrast the study of ethnic or nationalist movements has concentrated on the complexities of identity formation within culturally defined groups driven by strong passions.
Jeff Pratt argues for the need to set up a new analytical framework that extends the study of identity formation, and the ethnographic analysis of economic and social processes, to all ... Read more
Political movements across the world have such diverse characteristics and aims that it is difficult to examine them as a collective group. Movements that are class-based are usually portrayed as formed by economic categories of people driven by material interests. By contrast the study of ethnic or nationalist movements has concentrated on the complexities of identity formation within culturally defined groups driven by strong passions.
Jeff Pratt argues for the need to set up a new analytical framework that extends the study of identity formation, and the ethnographic analysis of economic and social processes, to all ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Series
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745316710
SKU
V9780745316710
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About Jeff Pratt
Jeff Pratt is Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Class, Nation and Identity (Pluto, 2003) and Food for Change (Pluto, 2013).
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