Description: Preface Edwin N. Wilmsen, Patrick McAllister. Introduction: Premises of Power in Ethnic Politics Edwin N. Wilmsen 1: Varieties of Ethnic Politics and Ethnicity Discourse Jan Nederveen Pieterse 2: Universalism, Particularism, and the Question of Identity Ernesto Laclau 3: Thinking Identities: Against a Theory of Ethnicity Aletta J. Norval 4: Hegemony, Power, and Languages of Contention William Roseberry 5: Ethnogenesis and Ethnic Mobilization: A Comparative Perspective on a South African Dilemma John Sharp 6: European Concepts of Nation-Building Jan Blommaert, Jef Verschueren. 7: The Nation-State in Crisis and the Rise of Ethnonationalism Stanley J. Tambiah 8: "The Voice of Sanity Getting Hoarse"? Destructive Processes in Violent Ethnic conflict Stephen Ryan 9: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Politics of Difference in an Age of Revolution John L. Comaroff List of Contributors References Index

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