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Intro -- POLITICS AND ETHNICITY: POLITICAL ANTHROPONYMY IN NORTHERN GHANA -- POLITICS AND ETHNICITY: POLITICAL ANTHROPONYMY IN NORTHERN GHANA -- CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- AIM AND SCOPE -- POTENTIAL BENEFITS -- Chapter 2 A NOTE ABOUT METHOD -- THE DATA -- ETHNOGRAPHIC INQUIRY -- Chapter 3 DRUM LORE IN DAGBON, AND PRAISE SINGING AS COMMUNICATION -- COMMUNICATION -- MUSIC, PRAISE SINGING AND COMMUNICATION -- THE DRUMMER -- THE PLACE OF THE DRUMMER IN THE SOCIETY -- TRAINING OF A TRADITION BEARER -- Political and Ethnographic History -- Training -- Chapter 4 MUSIC, EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND POESY AS FUNCTIONS OF DRUMMERS -- MUSIC, DIALOGUE AND COMMUNICATION -- EDUCATION AND HISTORY -- POESY AND RITUAL -- KINESICS -- PATERNAL AND MATERNAL LINEAGE -- CATEGORIES OF PRAISE SONGS -- FEATURES OF PRAISE POETRY -- PRAISE TYPES -- INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES AND METACOMMUNICATION -- CONVENTIONS AND INTERPRETATION OF PRAISE NAMES -- Chapter 5 WHAT IS IN THE PRAISE NAME, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE LORE? -- PRAISE NAMES -- THE POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRAISE POEMS -- MYTH AND TRANSFORMATION -- PRAISE NAMES -- NAMES THAT "FRICK": PRAISES DESCRIBED AS POSITIVE NAMES -- PRAISES THAT ARE OF A SEXUAL NATURE OR USE PROFANE LANGUAGE -- PRAISE EPITHETS WITH SEXUAL IMAGES -- NAMES THAT PRICK: "NEGATIVE NAMES" -- PRAISE NAMES THAT CAST INSINUATIONS -- PRAISE NAMES THAT ARE INSULTS/LAMPOONS/INSINUATIONS OR DEROGATORY -- PRAISE NAMES THAT DESCRIBE PATRONS AS MIGHTIER THAN THEIR RIVALS/ENEMIES -- PRAISE NAMES THAT DESCRIBE RIVALS AS COUNTERFEIT -- PRAISE NAMES THAT CELEBRATE ARROGANCE/DEFIANCE -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6 AT SAMBAN LUŊA: A COMPOSITE PRAISE SINGING SESSION -- THE SAMBAN" LUNA SESSION -- 1. Ʒiɛri Tɔbu "Processing the Soup Ingredients" -- 2. Na' Balima "Prelude to Narration Of Epic" -- 3. The Legendary Naa Zanjina

International audience ; BOX is an artwork that exposes some of the social and political impact of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and automation. The project uses a commercially available computer vision system that predicts the interactor's ethnicity, and locks or unlocks itself depending on this prediction. The artwork showcases a possible use of computer vision, making explicit the fact that every technological implantation crystallises a political worldview.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how ethnicity remains relevant to the workplace experience of minority ethnic graduate employees in contemporary British organizations.Design/methodology/approachQualitative interviews were conducted with 30 British Black Caribbean graduate employees drawn from a range of public and private‐sector organizations to examine the ways in which they felt their ethnicity impacted on how they experienced their places of work. Template analysis was used to analyse the data.FindingsThe paper finds that racial discrimination, social class and ethnic identity were key elements of the way in which ethnicity was experienced by these minority ethnic graduate employees. The paper discusses the differing ways racial discrimination is experienced and conceptualized in contemporary British organizations; and highlights the ways in which social class may play a role in how a group of (largely) working class minority ethnic graduates progress their careers in (largely) middle class organizational environments. Presented for the first time is a theory on the key facets of the ways ethnic identity might be experienced at work.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research would be required to see if the findings are replicated with graduates from other minority ethnic groups.Practical implicationsThe paper provides insights into ways in which majority and minority ethnic employees may experience organizations differently.Originality/valueThis paper provides some new insights into the role of ethnicity at work. It also attempts to address some of the issues with organizational psychological research on ethnicity at work identified by Kenny and Briner.

In the formation of ethnicity the interaction between the views of outside observers and insiders themselves is an important process. The Minangkabau, whose homeland is located in the uplands of central Sumatra, have been a popular source of study because of their matrilineal social organisation and the practice of themerantau, where young Minangkabau men leave the homeland to seek knowledge and fortune abroad. Since the 1970s as a result of the women's movement, there has been a growing number of works focusing on the matrilineal principles which underlie Minangkabau society. Themerantau, too, has often been cited for the dynamism in Minangkabau society which has led to its considerable contributions to the Indonesian state in a number of fields. It is not surprising, therefore, that today the Minangkabau themselves see matriliny and themerantauas primary components in their identity. While these components were present in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they did not play the central role in ethnic identity as they do today. As I hope to show in this paper, there were different historical circumstances in those years which required another approach to ethnic identity.

"In the economics of everyday life, even ethnicity has become a potential resource to be tapped, generating new sources of profit and power, new ways of being social, and new visions of the future. Throughout Africa, ethnic corporations have been repurposed to do business in mining or tourism; in the USA, Native American groupings have expanded their involvement in gaming, design, and other industries; and all over the world, the commodification of culture has sown itself deeply into the domains of everything from medicine to fashion. Ethnic groups increasingly seek empowerment by formally incorporating themselves, by deploying their sovereign status for material ends, and by copyrighting their cultural practices as intellectual property. Building on ethnographic case studies from Kenya, Nepal, Peru, Russia, and many other countries, this collection poses the question: Does the turn to the incorporation and commodification of ethnicity really herald a new historical moment in the global politics of identity?"

The aim of this article is to identify some conditions for peaceful coexistence between the state and populations in multi-cultural societies. Initially, the concepts of ideology, nationalism and ethnicity are examined briefly. It is argued that a successful ideology, such as a nationalist or an ethnic one, must simultaneously legitimize a social order, i.e. a power structure, and provide a meaningful frame for the articulation of important, perceived needs and wishes of its adherents. A few empirical cases are then considered. These examples, ranging from the multi-cultural island-states of Mauritius and Trinidad & Tobago to the Saami (Lappish) minority situation in northern Norway, involve conflicts between nation-states and ethnic groups, and between different ethnic groups within the nation-state. Some conflicts, and the methods employed to resolve them, are compared. The uniqueness of nationalism as a modern, abstract `binary' ideology of exclusion and inclusion, and its powerful symbolic as well as practical aspects, are stressed and contrasted with `segmentary' ethnic ideologies. Finally, the article proposes a list of necessary conditions for the peaceful coexistence of culturally diverse groups within the framework of a modern nation-state. The conclusion is that the main responsibility lies with the state insofar as it possesses a monopoly of political power and the legitimate use of force. State policies should genuinely attempt to decentralize power while at the same time recognizing the right of being culturally distinctive, even in matters relevant for political discourse. State nationalism should not be symbolically linked with the collective identity of only one of the populations. The culturally homogenizing tendencies of nationalism must in other words be counteracted through institutional arrangements which secure some form of ethnic autonomy and encourage cultural pluralism. The alternatives are violent suppression and the enforced assimilation of culturally distinctive groups.

This fresh new textbook to balance theory and the real world, addressing topics relating to race, ethnicity, criminality and criminalization, looking at the criminal justice system, the media, and the death penalty. In addition to information on crime and incarceration rates, White-collar crime, and the "typical criminal," the discussion of minorities and public perceptions is set within a broader context including the issues of terrorism and human trafficking, where race and ethnicity are also vital to public perceptions

Politics in Ghana's fourth republic is an interesting phenomenon. The intricacies in Ghanaian politics is one that requires constant analysis. In this paper, we examine some of these intricacies – the question and role of identity in politics in Ghana. We particularly analyse how ethnicity and religion influence elections in one of Africa's promising democracies. The analysis is based primarily on the scrutiny of official reports and detailed review of published works. The paper concludes that the tendencies to engage in over ethnicization and excessive religious undercurrent in Ghana's fourth republic, if not properly managed, can lead to ethnic and religious clashes, especially during electioneering periods. It is in view of this that we recommend that religious and traditional leaders make conscious efforts to promote peaceful and decorous campaigns. Moreover, there is the need for political leaders to avoid inciting ethnic groups against one another, even as societal groups embark on educating and sensitizing the general population.