"The book claims that its primary aim is to reconcile unity and
diversity by offering an interdisciplinary approach to questions of
European identity/identities. Despite the variety of approaches and
themes devel-oped, the book successfully bridges this
interdisciplinarity and provides a coherent flow of analysis of
European identity which, as the title best illustrates, still
remains a puzzle to be explored. The book therefore highlights the
complexity of constructing European identity from political and
cultural means...Overall it intellectually alerts the reader to
some of the most significant challenges facing European identity
and will be very useful to experts in the field." . Political
Studies Review
The twin concepts of "Culture" and "Identity" are inescapable in
any discussion of European Integration and yet over the last ten
years their meaning has become increasingly contested. By combining
an anthropological and political perspective, the authors challenge
the traditional boundaries within the issue of the construction of
Europe. In the first part, historians and anthropologists from
various national traditions discuss the process of the construction
of Europe and its implications for cultural identities. The second
section examines a number of topics at the core of the process of
Europeanization and presents up-to-date information on each of
these issues: political parties, regions, football, cities, the
Euro, ethnicity, heritage and European cinema. Emphasis is be
placed on the political structuring of cultural identities by
contrasting top-down and bottom-up processes that define the
tensions between the unity and diversity of the European
Community.
Marion Demossier is a senior lecturer in French and
Anthropology at the University of Bath. She is the co-ordinator of
a postgraduate Euromasters and Trans-Atlantic Masters course on
'Culture and identity in Europe' which has provided the material
for this book. She has published extensively on the Anthropology of
rural France and has recently edited a book on Recollections of
France: Memories, Identities and Heritage (Berghahn, 2001). Her
first monograph Hommes et Vins, une anthropologie du vignoble
bourguignon was published in 1999 (editions universitaires de
Dijon) and won a prize. She is currently preparing a monograph on
Wine Culture and Consumption in France.
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