Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena (World Anthropology) - Hardcover

MacClancy, Jeremy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0852559941 ISBN 13: 9780852559949

Publisher: James Currey, 2007

Synopsis

Redresses the balance on the human and cultural aspects of the idea of being Basque in the modern world.

Everyday nationalism, the human and cultural aspects of identity, is a neglected subject in the literature on nationalism in Europe.
Jeremy MacClancy redresses the balance in this unusual and sharp book on the human and cultural aspects of the idea of being Basque in the modern world. The style is fresh and colloquial, dealing with several of the kinds of issues that usually appear in popular magazines - cuisine, football, art and graffiti - but the treatment is serious and illustrative of underlying currents in social life.
MacClancy argues that the ethnographic understanding of nationalisms, rather than the orthodox studies of ideology, political parties, social classesand centre-periphery clashes - offers a more nuanced comprehension of the lived reality of people in areas where nationalism is a significant force. This is very much nationalism from the bottom up.

JEREMY MACCLANCY is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University

Series editors: Wendy James & Nick Allen

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About the Author

JEREMY MACCLANCY is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University North America: School for Advanced Research Press Series editors: Wendy James & Nick Allen

Edition details

• Publisher: James Currey
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0852559941
• ISBN 13: 9780852559949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224