Small Countries
Ulf Ging Hannerz
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Description for Small Countries
Hardcover. How does smallness shape a country and its relations with other countries? In comparative case studies that cover a diverse set of regions, Small Countries describes a number of similar problems with which small countries must cope, on domestic levels as well as in their transnational and global encounters. Editor(s): Hannerz, Ulf; Gingrich, Andre. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
What is a small country? Is a country small because of the size of its territory or its population? Can smallness be relative, based on the subjective perception of a country's inhabitants or in comparison with one's neighbors? How does smallness, however it is defined, shape a country and its relations with other countries? Answers to these questions, among others, can be found in Small Countries, the first and only anthropological study of smallness as a defining variable.
In terms of population size, some two thirds of the countries of the world can now be considered small countries, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812248937
SKU
V9780812248937
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99-1
About Ulf Ging Hannerz
Ulf Hannerz is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Andre Gingrich is Director of the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Reviews for Small Countries
"Small Countries is a remarkably fresh and engaging contribution to the anthropology of the nation-state. While such macroanthropology has often been understood to stand in tension with more traditionally localized sorts of ethnographic practice, the authors use the very smallness of the 'small country' to show how ideas and practices of national cultural intimacy disrupt received ideas of scale that ... Read more