Book Reviews

Category, Identity, and Otherness

The books listed below are reviewed in the French edition of Population 2, 2013.
Book review editor: Francisco Muñoz-Pérez
Assisted by Dominique Diguet, INED documentation department
Theme in this issue coordinated by Marianne BLIDON, UR 12, Identities and territories, INED

Simona CERRUTTI, Étrangers, Paris, Bayard, 2012, 302 p. Reviewed by Hervé LE BRAS

Olivier MASCLET, Sociologie de la diversité et des discriminations, Paris, Armand Colin, 2012, 128 p. Reviewed by Alexandra FILHON

Vincent DESCOMBES, Les embarras de l’identité, Paris, Gallimard (NRF Essais), 2013, 282 p. Reviewed by Florence MAILLOCHON

Pnina WERBNER (ed.), Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives, Oxford, New York, Berg publishers (ASA Monographs 45), 2008, XIII-382 p. Reviewed by Mélody BUHR

Ann MORNING, The Nature of Race. How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference, Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2011, 303 p. Reviewed by France GUÉRIN-PACE

François LAPLANTINE, Quand le moi devient autre. Connaître, échanger, transformer, CNRS éditions, coll. Bibliothèque de l’anthropologie, 2012, 201 p. Reviewed by Elena FILIPPOVA

Célia Forget, Vivre sur la route. Les nouveaux nomades nord-américains, Montreal, Liber, 2013, 222 p. Reviewed by Marianne BLIDON

Abdellali HAJJAT, Les frontières de l’ “identité nationale”. L’injonction à l’assimilation en France métropolitaine et coloniale, Paris, la Découverte, 2012, 338 p. Reviewed by Kamel KATEB

Stéphanie POUESSEL (ed.), Noirs au Maghreb. Enjeux identitaires, Paris, IRMC-Karthala, 2012, 180 p. Reviewed by Anasthase BOPDA