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The Centre of Social Anthropology (CSA) at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas has coordinated projects on this, including a current project on 'Retention of Lithuanian Identity under Conditions of Europeanisation and Globalisation: Patterns of Lithuanian-ness in Response to Identity Politics in Ireland, Norway, Spain, the UK and the US'. This has been designed as a multidisciplinary project. The actual expressions of identity politics of migrant, 'diasporic' or displaced identity of Lithuanian immigrants in their respective host country are being examined alongside with the national identity politics of those countries.

Personal identity and social identity are two very different concepts and the idea of getting them together, as Bhikhu Parekh proposes, within an integrated bundle of some `overall identity' raises serious questions of coherence. Personal identity demands the `sameness' of a person (Who is this guy? Am I still the same person that I was ten years ago?). Social identity is focused instead on our social affiliations, such as identifying with others with, say, the same nationality, or the same religion, or same political partnership. We can make reasoned choices about our priorities in social affiliation. Those who want to make our social affiliation a matter of `discovery' rather than of choice may frighten us by saying that we would lose our overall identity if we were to choose to affiliate differently (for example as an Indian and not just as a Hindu, or as British and not just as a Muslim). To understand that there is no threat to personal identity involved in such choices is important both for clarity of analysis and for standing up against the herd behaviour of identity politics.

What is national identity? What are the main challenges posed to national identity by the strengthening of regional identities and the growth of cultural diversity? How is right-wing nationalism connected to the desire to preserve a traditional image of national identity? Can we forge a new kind of national identity that responds to the challenges of globalization and other deep-seated changes?In this important new book, Montserrat Guibernau answers these and other compelling questions about the future of national identity. For Guibernau, the nation-states traditional project to unify

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: COMMUNITY IN SOUTH ASIAN CULTURES -- Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India -- Commercial Economy of an Urban Temple in India: A Shift from Inheritance to Consignment Rights -- The Indian Caste Community as a Social System -- Social Cohesion and Reciprocation in a Tibetan Community in Nepal -- SECTION TWO: CULTURES OF THE SOVIET UNION -- Interaction of Cultures Among Peoples of the USSR -- Development of Traditional Aspects of National Culture in the Soviet Central Asian Republics -- SECTION THREE: COMMUNITY AND WORLD JUDAISM -- The Jews as an Ethnic Group in the Americas During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Ancestor Memorialism: A Comparison of Jews and Japanese -- Some Functional and Structural Aspects of Family Life in a Communal Society: The Financial Sector of the Kibbutz Family -- Jewish Communities as Cultural Units -- SECTION FOUR: COMMUNAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA -- Eschatological Living: Religious Experience in the Shaker Community -- Religious Orientation of the Communal Counter-Culture: God, Nature, and Mysticism in Contemporary Society -- Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting -- The Country Place: An Intentional, Therapeutic Community -- Ethnography of Religious Factors in a Politically Oriented Communal Group of New England -- Aspects of Personality in a Communal Society -- Communitarian Experiments and the Self -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

This text intends to approach the question of sexual identity as it has been defined in queer theory, and particularly in Judith Butler's work. The notion of performativity, closely related to a conception of the social as an open field of power relations where all identity is a contingent and precarious stabilization, leads to a politicization of identity that implies a second step further from its denaturalization. Identity is the place from which we can articulate a resistance politics, and its open and incomplete character is what allows its resignification.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: A Question of Identity -- PART ONE: BRITISH IDENTITY -- 1 Being Bom Lost? The Cultural and Institutional Dimensions of Welsh Identity -- 2 The Northern Irish Identity -- 3 'A Good Jew or a Good Englishman?': The Jewish Lads' Brigade and Anglo-Jewish Identity -- 4 Issues of Identity through the Synagogue: British Jewish Women in the late Twentieth Century -- 5 Paths and Pitfalls in the Exploration of British Bangladeshi Identity -- 6 The Search for Wholeness: The Construction of National and Islamic Identities among British Bangladeshis -- 7 Identity, Age and Masculinity amongst Bengali Elders in East London -- 8 Caribbean Identities and the British Context: Creolisation as a Common Framework -- PART TWO: EUROPEAN, AFRICAN AND AMERICAN IDENTITY -- 9 German Identity after Reunification -- 10 Immigration, European Integration and the Representation of Migrant Interests -- 11 A Concept of European Union Citizenship: Problems and Possibilities -- 12 Political Identities and Social Struggle in Africa -- 13 Bilingualism and the Construction of a New 'American' Identity -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Music and Identity in Venezuela: An Introduction -- Music and Bonding -- Music as Window into Identity: The Case of Venezuela -- Mestizaje, Syncretism, and Other Foundational Myths -- Florentino as Archetype -- National Identity and Its Pitfalls -- Chapter 2: Simón Díaz and the Tonada Llanera: The Forging of a Referent for Modern Venezuelan Identity -- Milking and Herding Chants as Foundation for the Tonada -- Of Coplas and Tonadas -- Simón's Tonada