Ralph Grillo is Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex. He was formerly Dean of the School of African and Asian Studies (1988-93), and Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Culture, Development & the Environment (1994-7).

Ralph Grillo shows himself to be a knowledgeable and adept analyst. ... Grillo the social scientist concludes that ethnic diversification will be an increasing feature of advanced Western societies, while Grillo the normative philosopher seems impressed by the virtues of a form of multiculturalism which he terms hybridity. Grillos book provides a plausible case for both answers.

• 1. Plural Societies ; 2. Pluralism and the Patrimonial State: Pre-Colonial Africa ; 3. Pragmatism against Morality: Ethnicity in the Aztec Empire ; 4. Pluralism in a Patrimonial Bureaucracy: The Ottoman Empire ; 5. Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism in the Colonial Social Order ; 6. The Jacobin Project: The Nation-State and the Enemy Within ; 7. 'Nation of many nations?' The United States and Immigration, 1880-1930 ; 8. A 'magpie society'? From 'Assimilation' to 'Integration' in Britain and France ; 9. Multiculturalism and Beyond ; 10. Pluralism and the Postmodern Condition

Ralph Grillo is Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex. He was formerly Dean of the School of African and Asian Studies (1988-93), and Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Culture, Development & the Environment (1994-7).

Ralph Grillo shows himself to be a knowledgeable and adept analyst. ... Grillo the social scientist concludes that ethnic diversification will be an increasing feature of advanced Western societies, while Grillo the normative philosopher seems impressed by the virtues of a form of multiculturalism which he terms hybridity. Grillos book provides a plausible case for both answers.

• 1. Plural Societies ; 2. Pluralism and the Patrimonial State: Pre-Colonial Africa ; 3. Pragmatism against Morality: Ethnicity in the Aztec Empire ; 4. Pluralism in a Patrimonial Bureaucracy: The Ottoman Empire ; 5. Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism in the Colonial Social Order ; 6. The Jacobin Project: The Nation-State and the Enemy Within ; 7. 'Nation of many nations?' The United States and Immigration, 1880-1930 ; 8. A 'magpie society'? From 'Assimilation' to 'Integration' in Britain and France ; 9. Multiculturalism and Beyond ; 10. Pluralism and the Postmodern Condition

Ralph Grillo is Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex. He was formerly Dean of the School of African and Asian Studies (1988-93), and Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Culture, Development & the Environment (1994-7).

Ralph Grillo shows himself to be a knowledgeable and adept analyst. ... Grillo the social scientist concludes that ethnic diversification will be an increasing feature of advanced Western societies, while Grillo the normative philosopher seems impressed by the virtues of a form of multiculturalism which he terms hybridity. Grillos book provides a plausible case for both answers.

• 1. Plural Societies ; 2. Pluralism and the Patrimonial State: Pre-Colonial Africa ; 3. Pragmatism against Morality: Ethnicity in the Aztec Empire ; 4. Pluralism in a Patrimonial Bureaucracy: The Ottoman Empire ; 5. Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism in the Colonial Social Order ; 6. The Jacobin Project: The Nation-State and the Enemy Within ; 7. 'Nation of many nations?' The United States and Immigration, 1880-1930 ; 8. A 'magpie society'? From 'Assimilation' to 'Integration' in Britain and France ; 9. Multiculturalism and Beyond ; 10. Pluralism and the Postmodern Condition