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Contemporary Spain (contemporary + spain)

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Selected Abstracts

Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain

MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2006
STANLEY BRANDES
Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain. Jo Farb Hernández. University Press of Mississippi, 2005. 225 pp. [source]

The historical dynamics of ethnic conflicts: confrontational nationalisms, democracy and the Basques in contemporary Spain,

NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, Issue 2 2010
FERNANDO MOLINA
ABSTRACT. All the historical moments in which the Basque debate reached political protagonism in contemporary Spain coincided with political contexts of institutional democratisation. The debate on patriotism in the Basque Country is connected with a uniform narrative regarding the Basques and their moral distance from the Spanish nation: the ,Basque problem'. This narrative has fostered a confrontational discourse between Spanish and Basque nationalism. It has also promoted recourse to specific stereotypical images of the Basques, which bind ethnicity to collective identity. Such representations reveal that the invention of the Basque country as a uniform ethnic collective had much more to do with the internal contradictions of Spanish national identity , and later of Basque identity , than with the existence of a secular conflict between Basques and Spaniards. The Basque case shows that every ,ethnic conflict' requires adequate contextualisation in order to avoid simplifying its origins and past pathways to make it conform to present uses. [source]