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Wright, Handel Kashope – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007
In this speech, the author uses five moments of his own existence to speak to how he thinks the West conceptualizes and depicts Africa and Africans. This involves autobiography in a sense because he used his own life, but the discussion is not about him. It is about western conceptions and representations of Africans as reflected in the following…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Autobiographies, Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups
Sarkany, Mihaly – Prospects, 1992
Asserts that Erik Erickson's concept of identity gave a strong impetus to cultural anthropological research. Asserts that it is impossible for all 2,000 distinct ethnic groups to remain unchanged in today's world. Maintains that difficult choices of cultural traits selection will have to be made by peoples of all cultures. (CFR)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism