Anthropos: Anthropos, 96.2001

Anthropos, 96.2001

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Titel:: Anthropos

Untertitel:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

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Erscheinungsjahr:: 1906

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Werks-URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711750

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Titel:: Anthropos, 96.2001

Erscheinungsjahr:: 2001

Signatur:: LA 1118

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 96, 2001, Heft 2

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Reconsidering Identity

Sonstige Person:: Sökefeld, Martin

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Anthropos 96.2001: 527-544 Reconsidering Identity Martin Sôkefeld Abstract. - The paper discusses and defends the analytical usefulness of the concept of identity which has been pervasively criticized by authors like Richard Handler or Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper. Starting with reviewing the problematic of concepts in social anthropology and continuing with discuss ing the rise of identity discourse, it is argued that concepts in social and cultural sciences are always suspended between their employment in scientific and in nonscientific discourse. This dual hermeneutics of concepts is, however, not a shortcoming which has to be overcome but a productive element that contrib utes to their refinement. It is argued that in the case of identity dual hermeneutics leads to a reconceptualization of identity as qualified by the conditions of difference, multiplicity, and intersectionality. In the final parts of the paper, implications of this reconceptualization of identity for a concept of self are explored. [Theory, identity, self] Martin Sôkefeld, M. A. (Köln 1990), Dr. phil. (Tübingen 1996). He did field research on interethnic relations in Gilgit, Northern Pakistan between 1991 and 1993. From 1997 on he held teaching assignments at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg. Since 1999 he is assistant professor at the same institute, where he is working °n migrants from Turkey with a research project on Alevi identity in the German diaspora. - Publications: see References Cited. 1 Introduction The intention of this paper is to explore the concept °f identity generally, not limited to a specific ethnographic context, although I will draw on s uch contexts. The concept of identity has recently c °me under heavy attack. Two directions of cri- dque seem to be of particular weight. The first °f these denies that identity is a useful concept ln cross-cultural context (Handler 1994; Rouse 1995), and the second argues that identity has been charged with so many different meanings that it has ceased to be meaningful at all and should be replaced by a range of other, more specific concepts (Brubaker and Cooper 2000). Both argu ments contribute importantly to the questioning of “identity” and they certainly have to be taken very serious. However, I am still of the opinion that “identity” does important work within the social and cultural sciences. My text will, therefore, be a defence of “identity” - if certainly a defence with a great deal of reservation derived from the understanding that “identity” today is indeed an overused concept that should be employed with much more caution and stricture. I argue that a concept of identity has to be seen in close connection with a concept of self and that both have political implications which have to be taken into account. Before entering the debate, however, I will dwell a little on the general difficulty of concepts in social anthropology because in my opinion the quality of “identity” as a concept has an important impact on the contents and understanding of iden tity which has to be considered. I could also say that I am writing mainly about concepts in social anthropology, taking “identity” as example. What 1 am doing, then, is essentially the business of reflexivity. 2 Concepts in Social Anthropology Social anthropology, like all social and cultural sciences, is to a great extent a trade in concepts. The proposition for which I am arguing here is that

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