1st Edition

The Social Anthropology of the Nation-State

By Lloyd Fallers Copyright 1974
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

The contemporary nation-state is popular in that it rests upon mutual identification between rulers and ruled. Such identification is based upon common primordial qualities that are felt to be ancient, inherent, given, however new they may in fact be: language, territory, culture, race. But the nation-state has also produced far more rigorous authoritarianisms and frequently less tolerance than... Read more
The Social Anthropology of the Nation-State; one: Microcosms and Macrocosms; two: East Africa: “Artificial” Nation-States; three: Turkey: Nation-State Out of Polyglot Empire; four: The Problem of the Future; five: Implications, Theoretical and Practical

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Lloyd Fallers