Contesting Culture : Discourses of Identity in Multi-ethnic London

Name: Contesting Culture
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521554824
Price: 8550 KES
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ISBN: 9780521554824

by Gerd Baumann

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

ISBN-10 0521554829

ISBN-13 9780521554824

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 2nd, 1996

Print length 232 Pages

Weight 455 grams

Product Classification: Sociology & anthropology

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A vivid 1996 ethnographic account of an aspect of contemporary British life, and a challenge to the conventional discourse of community studies.

This innovative 1996 study presents an account of the interaction of people from different ethnic backgrounds who live in Southall, the most densely populated, multi-ethnic ghetto in the London area. Breaking with the tradition of studying a single ethnic community, Gerhard Baumann treats Southall as a social field, in which various immigrant groups come to terms with one another and with the dominant, if distant, host culture. The people of Southall affirm ethnic distinctiveness in some contexts, but they are also engaged in rethinking their identities and in debating the meaning of their cultural heritage. This book is at once a vivid ethnographic account of an aspect of contemporary British life, and a challenge to the conventional discourse of community studies.

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