Cover -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1. What is Ethnicity? -- THE TERM ITSELF -- ETHNICITY AND RACE -- ETHNICITY, NATION AND CLASS -- THE CURRENT CONCERN WITH ETHNICITY -- FROM TRIBE TO ETHNIC GROUP -- SO WHAT IS ETHNICITY? -- KINDS OF ETHNIC RELATIONS -- ANALYT ICAL CONCEPTS AND 'NATIVE' CONCEPTS -- FURTHER READING -- 2. Ethnic Classification: Us and Them -- THE ECOLOGY OF THE CITY -- THE MELTING-POT METAPHOR -- COMMUNICATING CULTURAL DIFFERENCE -- STEREOTYPING -- FOLK TAXONOMIES AND SOCIAL DISTANCE -- CONTRASTING AND MATCHING -- ETHNIC STIGMA -- NEGOTIATING IDENTITY -- ETHNICITY FROM THE INDIVIDUAL'S POINT OF VIEW -- CRITERIA FOR ETHNICITY -- FURTHER READING -- 3. The Social Organisation of Cultural Distinctiveness -- ASCRIPTION AS A DECISIVE FEATURE OF ETHNICITY -- BOUNDARY MAINTENANCE -- BOUNDARY TRANSCENDENCE AND FLUIDITY -- DEGREES OF ETHNIC INCORPORATION -- ETHNICITY AS RESOURCE COMPETITION -- LEVELS OF ETHNIC INCORPORATION -- THE THEORY OF PLURAL SOCIETIES -- ETHNICITY AND HIERARCHY -- THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRITERIA -- INSTRUMENTALISM AND ITS CRITICS -- A PROBLEM OF CULTURE -- FURTHER READING -- 4. Ethnic Identification and Ideology -- ORDER N THE SOCIAL UNIVERSE -- ANOMALIES -- ENTREPRENEURS -- ANALOG AND DIGITAL -- WE AND US -- THE EMERGENCE OF ETHNIC IDENTITIES -- THE CREATION OF AN ANCESTRAL IDENTITY -- HISTORY AND IDEOLOGY -- GENETICS, KINSHIP AND ETHNICITY -- SOCIAL FACTORS IN IDENTITY PROCESSES -- IS A EUROPEAN IDENTITY CONCEIVABLE? -- WHAT DO IDENTITIES DO? -- FURTHER READING -- 5. Ethnicity in History -- THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ETHNIC RELATIONS -- EXPANSIONS OF SYSTEM BOUNDARIES -- CAPITALISM AND INDIVIDUALISATION -- THE LABEL 'BLACK IDENTITY' -- INDIANS IN NEW WORLDS -- ETHNIC REVITALISATION: FROM PEOPLE TO A PEOPLE.

COLONIALISM AND MIGRATION -- THE POWER OF NAMING -- MODERN EDUCATION AND ETHNIC IDENTITY -- ETHNICITY, HISTORY AND CULTURE -- HISTORY AND MYTH -- FURTHER READING -- 6. Nationalism -- THE RACE TO NATION -- WHAT IS NATIONALISM? -- THE NATION AS A CULTURAL COMMUNITY -- THE POLITICAL USE OF CULTURAL SYMBOLS -- NATIONALISM AND INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY -- COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONHOOD -- NATIONALISM AS METAPHORIC KINSHIP -- THE NATION-STATE -- NATIONALISM AGAINST THE STATE -- NATIONALISM AND THE OTHER -- THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY BOUNDARIES -- NATIONALISM WITHOUT ETHNICITY? -- NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITY RECONSIDERED -- FURTHER READING -- 7. Minorities and the State -- MINORITIES AND MAJORITIES -- MINORITIES AND THE STATE -- THE CREATION OF MINORITIES IN THE MODERN WORLD -- INDIGENEITY -- TERRITORIAL CONFLICT -- STAGES IN ETHNOGENESIS -- FACTORS IN INDIGENOUS ETHNOGENESIS -- IMMIGRANT MINORITIES -- BOUNDARIES AND HYBRIDITY -- CULTURE AND ECONOMICS AMONG MIGRANTS -- IDENTITIES AND CULTURE -- ETHNICITY IN THE US: RACE, CLASS AND LANGUAGE -- MINORITIES AND MODERNITY -- FURTHER READING -- 8. Identity Politics, Culture and Rights -- DILEMMAS OF ETHNIC DIVERSITY -- MULTICULTURALISM AND ITS CRITICS -- BEYOND THE STANDARD PARADIGM OF NATION-BUILDING -- EMBEDDED DISCOURSES ABOUT CULTURE AND PLURALISM -- STRUGGLES OVER CULTURAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION -- DIASPORA AND HYBRIDITY -- TRANSNATIONALISM AND LONG-DISTANCE NATIONALISM -- THE MODERNITY OF HINDUTVA -- SOME GENERIC FEATURES OF IDENTITY POLITICS -- FURTHER READING -- 9. The Non-Ethnic -- GLOBALISATION -- SOCIAL THEORY AND THE POSTMODERN WORLD -- CHANGES IN THE WORLD OF INTERGROUP RELATIONS -- GLOBALISATION AND LOCALISATION -- IDENTITIES AND LOYALTIES -- GENDER, ETHNICITY AND NATIONHOOD -- BEYOND ETHNICITY? -- THE END OF ETHNICITY? -- THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER -- FURTHER READING -- Bibliography -- Index.