Kinship as metaphor: Sameness and difference

Kinship as metaphor: Sameness and difference

Week 7: The new ethnos: Love it or leave it

Ryan Schram
ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the world
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Slides available at https://anthro.rschram.org/1002/2024/7.2

Main reading: Rytter (2010)

Other reading: Hall (2007); Hall (2017); Nyamnjoh (2022); Linke (2021); Eriksen (2015a); Eriksen (2015b)

References and further reading

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2015a. “Ethnicity.” In Small Places, Large Issues, 4th ed., 329–44. An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Fourth Edition). London: Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183p184.21.

———. 2015b. “Nationalism and Minorities.” In Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology, 4th ed., 345–66. London: Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183p184.8.

Hall, Stuart. 2007. “Living with difference: Stuart Hall in conversation with Bill Schwarz.” Soundings 37 (December): 148–59. https://doi.org/10.3898/136266207820465570.

———. 2017. “Nations and Diasporas.” In The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, edited by Kobena Mercer, 125–76. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674982260-005.

Linke, Uli. 2021. “Love Politics: The Nation Form and the Affective Life of the State.” In Race, Gender, and Political Culture in the Trump Era. Routledge.

Nyamnjoh, Francis B. 2022. “Citizenship, Incompleteness and Mobility.” Citizenship Studies 26 (4-5): 592–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091243.

Rytter, Mikkel. 2010. “‘The Family of Denmark’ and ‘the Aliens’: Kinship Images in Danish Integration Politics.” Ethnos 75 (3): 301–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2010.513773.