| No 7
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Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe Today |
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Publication (Journal) |
Anthropology Today 8 no. 1 (February 1992): 3-8 |
| Published in |
U.K., 1992 |
| Language |
English |
| Abstract |
Following an Introduction by David I. Kertzer, the cause of ethnonationalism in Eastern Europe is examined. Though nationalism and ethnicity are distinct phenomena and need not be automatically tied to each other, in Eastern Europe they have become superimposed. Social disorientation in the region is the root cause. It has stripped individual identities of their meaning, creating a vacuum of anomie that has been filled by group identity --an alternative mechanism to provide meaning and order to life. Of note: Hobsbawm in the East, Katherine Verdery (Johns Hopkins University: Baltimore, MD) states that social disorientation is only one of numerous causes of ethnonationalism in Eastern Europe. The region's historical nationalisms and communist regimes' use of the economics of shortage constitute other primary causes. |
| Availability |
Library of the Ethnographic Museum, Budapest |
| Discipline(s) |
anthropology
, political science
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| Source(s) |
survey
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