01581nam a2200289Ia 4500 TVU_19329 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0073530891 9780073530895 eng 305.80097 K435 Kottak, Conrad Phillip On being different diversity and multiculturalism in the North American mainstream Conrad Phillip Kottak, Kathryn A. Kozaitis Boston McGraw-Hill 2008 1v. (various pagings) ill. 23 cm Includes bibliographical references and index On Being Different provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary account of diversity and multiculturalism in the United States and Canada. Kottak (recent inductee to The National Academ of Scineces) and Kozaitis clarify essential issues, themes, and topics in the study of diversity, including ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. The book also presents an original theory of multiculturalism, showing how human agency and culture work to organize and change society. The authors use rich and varied ethnographic examples, from North America and abroad, to help students apply the material to their own lives, and thus gain a better understanding of diversity and multiculturalism Ethnology; Multiculturalism; Ethnicity; Minorities Conrad Phillip Kottak; Kathryn A. Kozaitis Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh