Nationalist ideology and a comparative anthropology*
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Ethnos
- Vol. 54 (3-4), 161-199
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.1989.9981391
Abstract
The subjectivity of the anthropologist is grounded in the historical and ideological worlds in which he is positioned. The author finds the basis of his comparison of Australian and Sinhalese Buddhist nationalisms in the Australian cultural context, which leads him to a particular construction of the Sinhalese “otherness”. The Australian egalitarian nationalism and the Sinhalese Buddhist hierarchical nationalism are traced as ideologies through a range of practises, showing differing relationships between nation and state. Both nationalisms, the author argues, are to be understood as equally “modern” .Keywords
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