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NATIONALISM ANDETHNOSYMBOLISM

HISTORY, CULTURE AND ETHNICITYIN THE FORMATION OF NATIONS

edited by Athena S. Leoussiand Steven Grosby

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

CONTENTS

Notes on the Contributors v

Introduction i

I Theories of Nationalism and the Ethnosymbolic Approach

i Mapping the Field: Theories of Nationalism and the Ethnosymbolic

Approach Daniele Convent 15

i The Ethnic Enigma: Nationalism, Racism and Globalisation

John Stone and Polly Rizova 31

3 Warfare, Remembrance and National Identity John Hutchinson 42

II Music and Poetry in the Ethnosymbolic Approach

4 Music and Nationalism: Five Historical Moments Jim Samson 55

5 The Sound of England David Martin 68

6 Myth, History and Nationalism: Poetry of the British Isles

David Aberbach 84

III Antiquity in the Ethnosymbolic Approach

7 The Successor Territory Steven Grosby 99

8 Ethnosymbolism in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Sebastian Garman 113

IV Ethnosymbolism in Eastern Europe and Russia

9 The Jews and the Formation of Modern National Identity in Poland

Joanna B. Michlic 129

1 0 Lev Gumilev and Russian National Identity During and After

the Soviet Era MarkBassin 143

iv Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism

11 National Symbols: Ethnicity and Historical Continuity inPost-communist 'New Europe' Athena S. Leoussi 161

V Ethnosymbolism in the Middle East12 Dilemmas of Middle East Politics John A. Armstrong 189

13 The Muslim Umma and the Formation of Middle EasternNationalisms Haim Gerber 209

14 Historical Ethno-symbols in the Emergence of the State of IsraelAllon Gal 221

VI Ethnosymbolism in the Far East and India

15 Ethnosymbolism in China and Taiwan Peter Ferdinand 233

16 The Making of a Language of Patriotism in Modern BengaliSudipta Kaviraj 248

VII Ethnosymbolism in Africa17 Holy Nigerian Nationalisms Obi Igwara 267

18 Ethnic Demobilisation: The Case of the AfrikanersDavid Welsh and]. E. Spence 281

VIII Ethnosymbolism in the Americas

19 Women, War and the Confederate Ethnoscape Bruce Cauthen 299

20 Ethnic Origins and Indigenous Peoples: An Approach fromLatin America Natividad Gutierrez Chong 312

Epilogue: The Power of Ethnic Traditions in the Modern WorldAnthony D. Smith 325

Index 337