The politics of space, time and substance: state formation, nationalism, and ethnicity.
A crucial issue in the study of nationalism, ethnicity, and state formation is defining the relationship between commonsense categories of experience and analytical concepts that have been developed in order to understand the processes that create such categories and result in their being taken for...
| Publicado en: | Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 23; pp. 379 - 406 |
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Annual Reviews Inc.
1994
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| Sumario: | A crucial issue in the study of nationalism, ethnicity, and state formation is defining the relationship between commonsense categories of experience and analytical concepts that have been developed in order to understand the processes that create such categories and result in their being taken for granted. Although the inclusion of the state as an analytical category and ethnographic focus in mainstream sociocultural anthropology is to be welcomed, a critical perspective additionally involves going beyond the nation-state and developing a global vision while continuing to concentrate on the micropractices of daily life. If the postmodern condition contains both liberatory and reactionary possibilities, more consideration of the political role of anthropologists in today's world is required. |
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