Commentaries on Peter Wade’s « Defining Blackness in Colombia »
It has been well established since the birth of anthropology that categories and identities are first and foremost constructs. They are malleable, changing over time and the result of various processes of external and internal identification. What needs emphasizing, however, is that conflicting cat...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos
2009
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | It has been well established since the birth of anthropology that categories and identities are first and foremost constructs. They are malleable, changing over time and the result of various processes of external and internal identification. What needs emphasizing, however, is that conflicting categories are often used by social actors in a specific context to say something about who they feel they are. The situation of enunciation determines what will be stressed or not. Thus, systems of c... |
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