Contesting Culture - Discourses of Identity in Multi-ethic London

Klappentext This innovative study presents an account of the interaction of people from different ethnic backgrounds who live in Southall, the most densely populated multi-ethnic ghetto of London. Breaking with the tradition of studying a single ethnic community, Gerd Baumann treats Southall as a single social field in which various immigrant groups come to terms both with one another and with the dominant culture of England. Zusammenfassung In this 1996 book! Gerhard Baumann examines the area of Southall! the most densely populated! multi-ethnic ghetto in the London area. This vivid ethnographic account analyses various immigrant groups as they come to terms with one another! and engage in rethinking their identities as well as the meaning of their cultural heritage. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the proceeds of research; 2. The argument; 3. A shared Southall culture?; 4. The dominant discourse applied: 'self-evident' communities of culture; 5. The dominant discourse denied: community as creation, culture as process; 6. 'Culture' and 'community' as terms of cultural contestation; 7. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Gerd Baumann, Gerd (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Baumann
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.1996
• EAN: 9780521555548
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55554-8
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Cambridge Studies in Social &
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories