Identiteternes møde, civilisationernes sammenstød

Bibliographic Data

ID6166159
AuthorsMartijn Van Beek (0000-0001-5408-6709, corresponding author)
Year2002
Issue40
Publication date2002-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0108-1993 • E-ISSN: 1904-8181
PublisherDet Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7146/rt.v0i40.2192
OpenAlexW2108124844
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

Taking as its starting point Huntington’s thesis of a clash of civilisations, this article reviews anthropological critiques of primordialist conceptions of culture and identity as expressed in both cultural fundamentalist and multiculturalist understandings. The example of the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir in India is used to show that multiplicity and syncretism are the very substance of practices of identification, even where clear and at times antagonistic divisions between religious communities are found. The assumption that xenophobia is a necessary or natural reaction to the encounter with others is therefore rejected as an expression of identity fetishism

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Ethnology · Fetishism · Identification (biology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Racism · Sociology · Syncretism (linguistics · Xenophobia · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies

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