Problematizing Ethnicity: is the concept “ethnic group” of any use?
Abstract
In a multicultural context as the current one, where the diverse options and alternatives faced with the treatment of the social and cultural plurality are analyzed, the fundamentals of the intercultural perspective cannot save the effort to penetrate into the analysis of the concepts that sublie to such options, and that articulate the different social practices that from them stem. In fact, the intercultural option, in which the intercultural education is fi tted, represents initially an open and not predetermined model of relation, in contrast with others as the multiculturalism whose last theoretical foundations are supported in culturalist orientations where some concepts like ‘etnic group’ acquire an essential role. As it is emphasized in this article, from his appearance the above mentioned concept has showed his scanty aptitude to give reason of the characteristics of the human groups and, to opposite, has increased the confusion in the treatment of these and their culturesDownloads
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