Ethnic Boundary Making Joel Lerner and the contemporary experience of

and the contemporary experience of living in the city

Moral and religious authority has been fragmented and weakened by the accumulated ruins of history and the depersonalized advances of civilization that have taken us from a bloody twentieth century into an immensely problematic twenty-first

importance of science to the widest possible audience

Deliberation Naturalized assesses the extent of each of those threats and proposes ways

Ethnic Boundary Making Joel Lerner and the contemporary experience ofWhy does ethnicity matter in certain societies and contexts but not in others? Drawing on the boundary making perspective first championed by anthropologist Fredrick Barth, Andreas Wimmer introduces a comparative analytic of ethnic group formation. He analyzes how and why ethnic boundaries are sometimes associated with inequality and exclusion, with political salience and public debate, with enduring loyalty and thick identities, while in other cases