Title: Ethnicity? Be it if you want it to be – Futuribili 1-2 Author: Bregantini L., Pannuti A. (cur,) Year: 1997 Publisher: Franco Angeli, Milan Pages: 352

Language: Italian

Content: The existence of ethnicity is linked, rather than to objective elements, to the desire to enhance these elements in order to strengthen or at least maintain its own identity vis-à-vis other groups.
This basic assertion is substantiated through the critical analysis of ten crucial aspects: ethnicity as a mutable reality based on self-legitimization; emergence of ethnicity through migrations; reconstruction of ethnic identity; identity and conflict; identity and mobilization; numerical consistency; ethnic pluralism and totalitarian state; ethno-national state; minority protection; ethnic “self”-cleaning; ethnic hetero-cleansing; ethnic mobility within fixed boundaries; ethnic otherness.