Identity Matters

James L. Peacock is Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2002 recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s Boas Award. His publications include: Grounded Globalism (University of Georgia Press, 2007), Pilgrims of Paradox (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), The Anthropological Lens (Cambridge University Press, 1986, 2001), and Rites of Modernization (University of Chicago Press, 1968, 1987).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Identity MattersPatricia M. ThorntonChapter 1. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Nationalism: A ModelDavid BrownChapter 2. Social Identity Matters: Predicting Prejudice and Violence in Western EuropeThomas F. PettigrewChapter 3. Readiness to Fight in Crimea: How It Interrelates with National and Ethnic IdentitiesKarina V. KorostelinaChapter 4. Ethnic Identities of the Karen Peoples in Burma and ThailandKwanchewan BuadaengChapter 5. European Attitudes toward ImmigrantsThomas F. PettigrewChapter 6. Tibetan Identity in Today’s ChinaBadeng NimaChapter 7. Cross-Cutting Identities in Singapore: Crabgrass on the PadangJames L. Peacock and Wee Teng SohChapter 8. The Casamance Separatist Conflict: From Identity to the Trap of “Identitism”Hamadou Tidiane SyChapter 9. Manufacturing Sectarian Divides: The Chinese State, Identities, and Collective ViolencePatricia M. ThorntonChapter 10. Islam and the West: A Perspective from PakistanMohammad WaseemConclusion: Ethnic and Sectarian as Ideal TypesPatrick B. Inman and James L. PeacockIndex