Gerd Baumann

André Gingrich

Lecturer in Social Anthropology Gerd Baumann

Issues of the construction of Self and Other, normally in the context of social exclusion of those perceived as different, have assumed a new urgency. This collection offers a fresh perspective on the ongoing debates on these questions in the social sciences and the humanities by focusing specifically on one theoretical proposition, namely, that the seemingly universal processes of identity formation and exclusion of the 'other' can be differentiated according to three modalities. All contributors directly engage with rigorous empirical testing and theoretical cross-examination of this proposition. Their results have direct implications not only for a more differentiated understanding of collective identities, but also for a better understanding of extreme collective violence and genocide.

A Structural Approach

Grammars of Identity/alterity

Marcus Banks

Prompted by the near-simultaneous rise to political influence of more than a dozen apparently similar parties across Western Europe, this collection offers a range of European case studies with selected global examples, such as the Front National, the late Pim Fortuyn, and India and the BJP.

Perspectives from Social Anthropology

Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond

Thomas Fillitz

Lutz Musner

transnationale Perspektiven der Anthropologie

Kulturen und Kriege

Richard Gabriel Fox

An international group of anthropologists take a fresh look at various neglected approaches to comparison and present new approaches that are relevant to the globalized world of the twenty first century

Anthropology, by Comparison

André Gingrich

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