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Ethnicity, Inc. : Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning - John L. Comaroff

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Ethnicity, Inc.

By: John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff

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Paperback | 1 July 2009 | Edition Number 1

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In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?

Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are global: Native American casinos; Scotland’s efforts to brand itself; a Zulu ethno-theme park named Shakaland; a world religion declared to be intellectual property; a chiefdom made into a global business by means of its platinum holdings; San “Bushmen” with patent rights potentially worth millions of dollars; nations acting as commercial enterprises; and the rapid growth of marketing firms that target specific ethnic populations are just some of the diverse examples that fall under the Comaroffs’ incisive scrutiny. These phenomena range from the disturbing through the intriguing to the absurd. Through them, the Comaroffs trace the contradictory effects of neoliberalism as it transforms identities and social being across the globe.

Ethnicity, Inc. is a penetrating account of the ways in which ethnic populations are remaking themselves in the image of the corporation—while corporations coopt ethnic practices to open up new markets and regimes of consumption. Intellectually rigorous but leavened with wit, this is a powerful, highly original portrayal of a new world being born in a tectonic collision of culture, capitalism, and identity.

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"The Comaroffs are among the very finest anthropologists working anywhere in the world today. As genuine leaders of the discipline, every new book they publish is an event and this one is no exception. Ethnicity, Inc. will be a watershed for anyone looking for new ways to explain our neoliberal world. This extraordinarily lucid book is one of the most ambitious, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking pieces of anthropological scholarship written over the last few decades; it sets a standard other scholars can only hope to emulate." - Matti Bunzl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Cultural Studies Material Culture Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Miscellaneous Items Archaeology

Prologue	p. 1
Three or Four Things about Ethno-futures	p. 6
Questions of Theory	p. 22
Commodifying Descent, American-style	p. 60
A Tale of Two Ethnicities	p. 86
Nationality, Inc., Divinity, Inc., and Other Futures	p. 117
Conclusion	p. 139
Acknowledgments	p. 151
Notes	p. 153
Bibliography	p. 191
Index	p. 223
Plates to follow	p. 74
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