Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective

by R. D. Grillo

Overview

This powerful new study examines pluralism in three settings: early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary ‘postmodern' world, each of which vary economically, politically, and in the space they allow difference. Identifying several kinds of pluralism, the author points to a range of choices facing us as we move into the twenty-first century, trying to reconcile the competing demands of universalism and difference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198294269
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/14/1999
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1370L (what's this?)

About the Author

Ralph Grillo is Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex. He was formerly Dean of the School of African and Asian Studies (1988-93), and Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Culture, Development & the Environment (1994-7).

Table of Contents

1. Plural Societies2. Pluralism and the Patrimonial State: Pre-Colonial Africa3. Pragmatism against Morality: Ethnicity in the Aztec Empire4. Pluralism in a Patrimonial Bureaucracy: The Ottoman Empire5. Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism in the Colonial Social Order6. The Jacobin Project: The Nation-State and the Enemy Within7. ‘Nation of many nations?' The United States and Immigration, 1880-19308. A ‘magpie society'? From ‘Assimilation' to ‘Integration' in Britain and France9. Multiculturalism and Beyond10. Pluralism and the Postmodern Condition

Editorial Reviews

"[A] thoughtful and timely study."—Choice

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