1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455644503321

Autore

Dawa Norbu <1949, >

Titolo

Culture and the politics of Third World nationalism / / Dawa Norbu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-89548-8

1-280-07068-4

0-585-44735-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Disciplina

320.9172/4

Soggetti

Nationalism - Developing countries

Political culture - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Developing countries Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface: field experience and social theory; Introduction: western concepts and non-western realities; A critique of the Eurocentric theory of nationalism; Methodology for voluntaristic theory; Some correlates of the Third World concept; Towards a new definition of Third World nationalism; A sociological definition of nationalism; The stages of proto-nationalism: tribalism, ethnicity and patriotism; Political evolution and concomitant types of social consciousness; Patriotism and nationalism differentiated

Political feudalism and state formation in the Third WorldSocial structure of the nation: the ordering principle of national attributes; Race and language as means of cultural differentiation; Society and nation; The pattern of nation formation in the Third World; The evolution of religious sects and the emergence of national identities; National identity in the context of multiple identities; The domestication of world religions and the origins of national identities; The sacralization of race and territory: clues to emotionalism in nationalism; Modern nationalism and egalitarian ideology

Traditional and modern nationalisms differentiatedIntellectual mobilization and the diffusion of political consciousness in society;



Imperialism and the objectification of social self-hood; The politics of nationalism: mass mobilization, linguistic transformation and nationalist movements; Social carriers of nationalist ideas; Linguistic transformation and social communication; The state and national economy; Nationalist and social movements differentiated; The mechanism of mass mobilization: symbol manipulation and identity assertion; Brahminic symbols and Hindu nationalism

'The true Muslim' myth and Jihad in Arab nationalismUncertain counterracialism in African nationalism; Territoriality and power in Han nationalism; Peasant culture and mass nationalism; Nationalism as social power: restructuring egalitarian systems; Fascist tendency in the structure of nationalism: race; Nationalism's normative legacy: freedom and equality; State nationalism and regional organization; The monoethnic state and polyethnic social system: the rise of ethnic nationalism; Ethnic identity and the monoethnic state; National integration and the rise of ethnic nationalism

The 'modernization' of ethnicitySocial prerequisites of ethnic nationalism; Conclusion: cultural differentiation and political rationalization; The paradigm and prediction; Epilogue: the rise of Slavic nationalisms and the collapse of transnational ideocracy; The Nature of Slavic nationalism; Tradition in the family; Russofication and non-Russian identities; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nationalism in specific political systems combined with a theoretical framework that draws out its universal significance. Ten case studies from South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe focus on local cultural factors.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814142603321

Autore

Jackson Michael

Titolo

What Is Existential Anthropology?

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2015

ISBN

1-78238-637-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PietteAlbert

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Anthropology

Anthropology--Philosophy

Anthropology - Philosophy

Social Sciences

Anthropology - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

What is Existential Anthropology; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Conversion and Convertiblility in Northern Mozambique; Chapter 2. Both/And; Chapter 3. Reading Bruno Latour in Bahia; Chapter 4. The Station Hustle; Chapter 5. Mobility and Immobility in the Life of an Amputee; Chapter 6. Existential Aporias and the Precariousness of Being; Chapter 7. Existence, Minimality, and Believing; Chapter 8. Considering Human Existence; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? What has been gained by using existential perspectives in your fieldwork and writing? Editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette each invited anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic to address these questions and explore how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory. Both editors also bring their own perspective: while Jackson has drawn on phenomenology, deploying the concepts of intersubjectivity, lifeworld, experience, existential mobility, and event, Piette ha