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SOC/ANTH
565
Ethnicity, Identity and Nationalism
(
3
) cr.
Offered in alternate years.
This course examines the factors that contribute to modern nationalism or contradict it. Such factors include ethnic and other forms of identity such as those constructed around the notions of race, language, and religion. The approach to the imagined community is both cultural, dealing with identity formation and maintenance, and social, stressing processes and social groups.