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Cultural Difference as Denied Resemblance: Reconsidering Nationalism and Ethnicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2003

Simon Harrison
Simon Harrison
Affiliation:
School of Sociology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine
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The most important advance in the understanding of ethnic and national identity has surely been the realization of its deeply relational nature. A nation or ethnic group is not a self-defined monad of some kind, but exists in and through its interactions with others (Duara 1996; Eriksen 1993:9–12, 111; Schwartz 1975:107–8).

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Research Article
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 343 - 361
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© 2003 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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