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Cultural Difference as Denied Resemblance: Reconsidering Nationalism and Ethnicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2003

Simon Harrison
Affiliation:
School of Sociology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine

Extract

The most important advance in the understanding of ethnic and national identity has surely been the realization of its deeply relational nature. A nation or ethnic group is not a self-defined monad of some kind, but exists in and through its interactions with others (Duara 1996; Eriksen 1993:9–12, 111; Schwartz 1975:107–8).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2003 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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