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Lecture Notes

Lec # Topics
1 Introduction to The Study of Ethnic and National Identity: The Stakes, and Why the Stakes are So High (PDF)
2 Ethnic Identity I (PDF)
3 Ethnic Identity II (PDF)
4 Ethnic Identity III: The Hui (PDF)
5-6 Nation and Nationalism I, Nation and Nationalism II (PDF)
7 Ethnicity, State, Nation (PDF)
8 State, Nation, Culture (PDF)
9 Culture: Definitions (PDF)
10 Ethnic/State Conflict (PDF)
11 Ethnic/State Conflict II (PDF)
12-13 Race I, Race II (PDF)
14 Ethnic Identity, Nationalism and Gender (PDF)
15 Ethnic Identity, State, and Sexuality (PDF)
16 Religion, Ethnicity, The Nation (PDF)
17 Language, Culture, Ethnicity (PDF)
18 State, Culture, Nation
19 Culture Recovery
20 Culture: Appropriations, Heritage, "Selling Culture" (PDF)
21 Human Rights, Collective Rights (PDF)
22 New Social Movements: The Indigenous Movement (PDF)
23 Transnationalism, Globalization and Culture (PDF)
24 Summing Up
25 Student Reports
26 Student Reports (cont.)