Myths and nationhood
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Myths and nationhood
Routledge in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1997
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Myths & nationhood
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Papers in a revised and updated form were delivered at a two-day international conference in Oct. 1996
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Myths are central to the way we live and how we define ourselves. In this pioneering book, a group of specialists--among them Anthony Smith, Norman Davies, Geoffrey Hosking and George Schopflin--look at the general and theoretical nature of myth on a universal basis and examine the specific myths of various nations. With nationhood and ethnicity at the centre of political attention, the book is timely in illuminating the deeper, underlying issues of nationalism that cause so much conflict throughout the world.
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Myths are central to the way we live and how we define ourselves. In this pioneering book, a group of specialists--among them Anthony Smith, Norman Davies, Geoffrey Hosking and George Schopflin--look at the general and theoretical nature of myth on a universal basis and examine the specific myths of various nations. With nationhood and ethnicity at the centre of political attention, the book is timely in illuminating the deeper, underlying issues of nationalism that cause so much conflict throughout the world.
Table of Contents
Preface The Contributors Chapters The Role of Myth: An Anthropological Perspective, or:'The Reality of the Really Made-Up' Joanna Overing The Functions of Myth and a Taxonomy of Myths George Schopflin The 'Golden Age' and National renewal Anthony Smith The Myth of European Unity Sonja Puntscher Riekmann Myth-Making and National Identity: The Case of the GDR Mary Fulbrook Making History: Myth and the Construction of American Nationhood Susan-Mary Grant They Myth of Divine Election and Afrikaner Ethnogenesis Bruce Cauthen National Myths in the New Czech Liberalism Kieran Williams Polish National Mythologies Norman Davies National Mythology in the History of Ideas in Latvia: A View from Religious Studies Agita Misane and Aija Priedite The Myth of Zion among East European Jewry John D. Klier Myths of National History in Belarus and Ukraine Andrew Wilson The Russian National Myth Repudiated Geoffrey Hosking Davies
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