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...
| Published in: | Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 23; pp. 379 - 406 |
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Annual Reviews Inc.
1994
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