Foundations of national identity : from Catalonia to Europe /
What we are experiencing is an increasing autonomy of ethnonations, i.e. nations without a state, in the wake of a weakening of the multinational states and the transfer of their sovereignty upwards, in the case of Europe to the federation of the European Union, and downwards to the "ethnonatio...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Berghahn Books
2004.
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| Series: | New directions in anthropology ;
v. 19. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv287shmq |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The building-blocks of nationhood
- 2. National sentiments as an ultimate reality : a comparison between Catalonia and Poland
- 3. What's in a name? : kinship, territory and religion in the making of national identity
- 4. National character : myth and reality
- 5. God giveth them glory, for they speaketh the native tongue
- 6. The stuff that culture is made of
- 7. Distant splendours, latter-day miseries : the role of historical memory
- 8. Does nationalism inevitably lead to conflict and violence?
- 9. The future of nations in a United Europe
- 10. Explaining national identity : a theoretical closure.