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Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity
Towards a Dynamic Theory of People and Place
This multi-authored work tackles the problem of how to examine the historicity of identity. Through four discrete case studies, seven scholars of religion expose the disconnects in the academic discourse on diaspora, identity, and creolization, and suggest ways of achieving greater theoretical clari... Read more
Published: 2018
Pages: 294
eBook: 9781781790724
This multi-authored work tackles the problem of how to examine the historicity of identity. Through four discrete case studies, seven scholars of religion expose the disconnects in the academic discourse on diaspora, identity, and creolization, and suggest ways of achieving greater theoretical clarity in the study of identity - or better, identity claims - as it takes shape over time and space.
| Cover | Cover | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Preface | ix | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| SITE I | 19 | ||
| Chapter 1 | 21 | ||
| Chapter 2 | 48 | ||
| Chapter 3 | 57 | ||
| SITE II | 71 | ||
| Chapter 4 | 73 | ||
| Chapter 5 | 96 | ||
| Chapter 6 | 106 | ||
| SITE III | 115 | ||
| Chapter 7 | 117 | ||
| Chapter 8 | 142 | ||
| Chapter 9 | 155 | ||
| Afterword | 167 | ||
| Appendix | 179 | ||
| Index | 267 |