ISBN:
9780871547958
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (500 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Bledsoe, Caroline Engaging Cultural Differences : The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction. Engaging Cultural Differences - Richard A. Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus -- Part I. One Nation, Many Cultures: Contested Practices and Group Status in Liberal Democracies -- Chapter 1. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Assimilation but Were Afraid to Ask - Marcelo M. Súarez-Orozco -- Chapter 2. Living with Multiculturalism: Universalism and Particularism in an Indian Historical Context - Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
Abstract:
Chapter 3. Legislating Religious Freedom: Muslim Challenges to the Relationship between Church and State in Germany and France - Katherine Pratt Ewing -- Chapter 4. Civilizing the Natives: Customary Marriage in Post-Apartheid South-Africa - David L. Chambers -- Chapter 5. Immigrants, Agency, and Allegiance: Some Notes from Anthropolog and from Law - Jane Maslow Cohen and Caroline Bledsoe -- Chapter 6. Citizenship on Trial: Nadia's Case - Unni Wikan -- Part II. Cultural Accommodation and Its Limits
Abstract:
Chapter 7. Accommodation and Coherence: In Search of a General Theory for Adjudicating Claims of Faith, Conscience, and Culture - Arthur N. Eisenberg -- Chapter 8. The Free Exercise of Culture: Some Doubts and Distinctions - Lawrence G. Sager -- Chapter 9. The Culture of Property - Nomi Stolzenberg -- Chapter 10. In Defense of Culture in the Courtroom - Alison Dundes Renteln -- Chapter 11. "What About Female Genital Mutilation?"" and Why Understanding Culture Matters in the First Place - Richard A. Shweder -- Chapter 12. About Women, About Culture: About Them, About Us - Martha Minow
Abstract:
Part III. The Universal Human Rights Debate: Mobilization and Resistance -- Chapter 13. Between Nationalism and Feminism: Indigenous Women, Community, and State - Maivân Clech Lâm -- Chapter 14. Neither Victim nor Rebel: Feminism and the Morality of Gender and Family Life in a Hindu Temple Town - Usha Menon -- Chapter 15. Circumcision Debates and Asylum Cases: Intersecting Arenas, Contested Values, and Tangled Webs - Corinne A. Kratz -- Chapter 16. From Skepticism to Embrace: Human Rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947 to 1999 - Karen Engle
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Part IV. Conceptions of Difference and the Differences They Make -- Chapter 17. Cultural Models of Diversity in America: The Psychology of Difference and Inclusion - Victoria C. Plaut -- Chapter 18. The Micropolitics of Identity-Difference: Recognition and Accommodation in Everyday Life - Austin Sarat -- Chapter 19. Plural Society and Interethnic Relations in Guinea-Bissau - Joanna Davidson -- Chapter 20. Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Silence: An Analysis of Talking as a Cultural Practice - Heejung S. Kim and Hazel Rose Markus
Abstract:
Chapter 21. Color Blindness as a Barrier to Inclusion: Assimilation and Nonimmigrant Minorities - Hazel Rose Markus, Claude M. Steele, and Dorothy M. Steele
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