A critique of symbolic ethnicity

Anagnostou, Yiorgos

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“…This is an important area of research that undoubtedly will continue to grow over the next decade, though it will likely remain contentious (e.g., Anagnostou 2009). …”

Section: Vectors Of Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty-First-Century Historical Archaeology

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2009

J Archaeol Res

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The practice of historical archaeology has exploded over the past two decades, and especially since 2000. Methodological advances and new theoretical insights mean that archaeological research requires periodic evaluation, and this overview builds on the work of three earlier assessors of the discipline. Here, I concentrate on four areas of research currently being pursued by historical archaeologists: analytical scale, capitalism, social inequality, and heritage and memory. I conclude that historical archaeologists have made major strides in understanding the modern world and that future research promises to offer diverse perspectives that will deepen our appreciation for how the past influences the present.

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“…This is an important area of research that undoubtedly will continue to grow over the next decade, though it will likely remain contentious (e.g., Anagnostou 2009). …”

Section: Vectors Of Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty-First-Century Historical Archaeology

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2009

J Archaeol Res

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“…Despite some misgivings about the term (e.g. Anagnostou, 2009; Byers, 2011; Gupta and Ferguson, 1992: 16; Kraut, 2009), postethnicity broadens and complexifies ethnicity. It incorporates a variable balance of ‘active’ substantive ethnicity and symbolic ethnicity, both relativised by other affiliations.…”

Section: Aborigines' Increasingly Postethnic Intercultural Everyday mentioning

confidence: 99%

Interculturality, postethnicity and the Aboriginal Australian policy future

Moore

2016

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Though now under some challenge, the policy orthodoxy in Australian Aboriginal affairs since the 1970s has been progressive in its social justice orientation, postcolonial in its amelioration of the colonial legacy, and culturalist in its privileging of ethnicity. In this paper I argue that its attempt to recover the past in the face of increasing postethnicity is becoming counter-productive, by stultifying cultural adaptation and compromising individuals' capacity to engage with modernity. The notions of interculturality and postethnicity point to coexisting ancestral cultures, an imagined, symbolic national Aboriginality, and deep intersection with settler-Australia and the world, and so cultural 'changing-sameness' and simultaneous 'bothness'. The paper argues that a dialectic of public policy and Aboriginal identity politics resists this lived reality, with negative effects. It proposes that a way forward is to engage more fully with the lived reality.

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“…However, the concept that descent is not destiny can be problematic in the Indigenous context were descent is a key component to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identities. Similarly, postethnicity (and its sister concept symbolic ethnicity) has received criticism for its tendency to overprivilege individual agency (choice) and downplay social structures (constraints and cultural production) (Anagnostou 2009), and side-lining the impact of racialisation and racism on identity formation and social interaction (see Chapter 6).…”

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What’s in a label: social factors and health issues for a small group of Aboriginal people born in Brisbane, Australia

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The health disparity between Aboriginal people and other Australians is well documented.However, little is known how this is experienced over the life course in an urban setting. This study explores the social determinants of health and wellbeing over the early life course among a small group of Aboriginal people living in an urban setting. This was done in two parts: first, by statistically analysing differences in social risk factors between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people who were part of the longitudinal birth cohort study, the Mater-University Study of This thesis highlights the following challenges regarding the nexus between identity and health: a) identity is not easy to measure or define, and changes over time and space; b) not all people experience identity in the same way, even if they have been labelled under the same identity category; and c) identity plays a significant role in people's wellbeing narratives, even if this differs to the way it is represented by public health research. These points represent important considerations for any future epidemiological studies that use identity categories to determine health disparities. These findings suggest the need for more nuanced understanding of Aboriginal identities within public health, and also bring into question the use of Aboriginal status as an epidemiological variable more broadly.ii Declaration by authorThis thesis is composed of my original work, and contains no material previously published or written by another person except where due reference has been made in the text. I have clearly stated the contribution by others to jointly-authored works that I have included in my thesis.

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A critique of symbolic ethnicity

Cited by 18 publications

References 20 publications

Twenty-First-Century Historical Archaeology

Twenty-First-Century Historical Archaeology

Interculturality, postethnicity and the Aboriginal Australian policy future

What’s in a label: social factors and health issues for a small group of Aboriginal people born in Brisbane, Australia

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