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Selected Works of John F. Stack, Jr.
Contribution to Book
Ethnic Mobilization in World Politics: The Primordial Perspective
THE PRIMORDIAL CHALLENGE : ETHNICITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, (1986)
  • John Stack, Florida International University College of Law
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Abstract
This volume is a contribution to the already large body of literature analyzing ethnicity throughout the world. While no theory of ethnic mobilization or the politicization of ethnonationalism is proposed here, it may be helpful to highlight a number of recent conceptual contributions to the study of ethnicity. Although neglected in most of the recent literature, the concept of primordial attachments as defined by Clifford Geertz is a useful perspective from which to analyze the dynamics of ethnicity throughout the world.
Keywords
  • Ethnicity,
  • Nationalism
Disciplines
Publication Date
1986
Editor
John F. Stack, Jr.
Publisher
Greenwood Press
ISBN
9780313247590
Citation Information
John F. Stack, Jr., Ethnic Mobilization in World Politics: The Primordial Perspective, in THE PRIMORDIAL CHALLENGE : ETHNICITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, (John F. Stack, Jr. ed., Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1986).