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The commonly applied division separating the Maghreb from sub-Saharan Africa gives rise to innumerable problems since it denies the many forms of intertwining influence that exist. The Algerian writers Kateb [...]

The paper poses the question: what are the epistemological consequences of an unreflexive use of the concept of community as the privileged container of cultural difference? The argument is made that contemporary notions of ethnic minority communities as deployed in official and demotic discourse have a complex history which may usefully be traced through classical sociological and anthropological thinking on the idea of community as connoting the premodern and non-Western. This is supplemented by a discussion of the contribution of ideas from these disciplines to contemporary imaginings of ethnic difference in `multicultural' Britain. Keywords: Community; ethnicity; race; migration; Britain; classical sociology social anthropology.

The old ideal of multicultural unity has to give way to the idea of race and color diversity. The experiences of ethnic groups is that each have to find solutions for their particular culture or ethnicity and color. Homogeneity, therefore, is not the solution being looked for, but the acceptance of heterogenecity. The very roots of Canadian public policy is the protest against the idea of an 'official culture.' The present challenge is in finding ways by which all ethnic groups can be civil to each other, to accept the Other's difference in order to live in harmony.

This paper reports the findings of research into attitudes towards Europe, European identity and European integration prevailing among United Kingdom intellectuals. Using a sample of representative academics from a typical British university, the researchers discovered a strong sense of European identity and anti-widespread belief in the need for further European integration, though differences in view emerged concerning the forms that such integration could or should take. The paper also reflects the respondents' criticisms of what they took to be the rather insular, and anti-European attitudes which they saw as being widespread throughout society, attitudes which they explained by reference to the historical development of an island people and its nexus of commercial, political and ethnic relations with its Commonwealth and with the United States of America.

If his reliance on anthropology entails (as he writes) a 'surrender to that paradox,' I would only insist that it not entail the surrender of our critical awareness that has [...]

Key Words gender role attitudes, beliefs about gender inequality, race, ethnicity * Abstract Research on how gender-related attitudes vary across racial/ethnic groups has produced contradictory results, depending upon the type [...]

Abstract Frederic Barth recommended taking what people themselves think and believe as the starting point for an analysis of ethnicity. As the concept of thinking used by Barth was rather [...]