The Anthropology of Ethnicity

by Hans Vermeulen

We can hardly imagine social theories and political developments these days without the notion of ethnicity. Yet it is only since the sixties that ethnicity was validated as a separate and independent concept within the social sciences. Twenty-five years after the publication of Barth's *emphasized text*Ethnic groups and boundaries*emphasized text*, one of the most influential writings on the subject, this book raises the issue of what has been accomplished in the study of ethnicity since then.