"A remarkable work of scholarship and of fieldwork, "Nationalist
Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town" should be
read by every social scientist interested in nationalism, or
ethnicity, or community life, or Eastern Europe. It does a terrific
job of showing how large-scale social changes and projects of
identity play out in a local context. Along the way it raises
important questions for both social theory and public affairs. It
should shape discussion for years to come."--Craig Calhoun, Social
Science Research Council
"For over a decade, Rogers Brubaker has been calling into
question the entire edifice underpinning the study of ethnicity by
challenging the idea that ethnicity is about real groups founded on
'Ethnic identities.' This superb book on Hungarians and Romanians
in a Transylvanian town amply demonstrates the fruitfulness of his
conception. Not only will this be the definitive statement on
contemporary ethno-national relations in this very complex region
in Europe: it will become a classic for the analysis of such
relations in many other parts of the world."--Katherine Verdery,
Graduate Center, City University of New York
"Here in this uncommonly sensitive study, Rogers Brubaker
employs perspectives and analytical idioms rarely coupled in the
study of ethnicity and nationhood as applied to a distinct
geographical area. We are taken to Cluj, a city in western Romania
scarcely known to the West but one whose profile fairly shimmers on
the page with tensions accruing from a combined and culturally rich
Hungarian-Romanian past. The author probes the symbolic and
ritualistic aspects of daily life in the surrounding area, leading
to groundbreaking views onethnicity."--Istvan Deak, Columbia
University
"This wonderful book will be welcomed by students and scholars
of ethnicity, because there are so few, if any, other studies that
look closely at how decisions about one's ethnicity and nationality
are actually made. The first half provides an excellent review of
Cluj's and Transylvania's history, and the detailed examination of
life in Cluj that makes up the second half represents a unique
contribution to our understanding of how ethnicity really functions
in a contested space."--Daniel Chirot, University of Washington,
author of "Modern Tyrants"
"A fine book that will be widely read and influential. Not only
does it serve as an empirical companion piece to the more
theoretical essays in Rogers Brubaker's "Ethnicity without Groups,"
it also breaks new methodological ground while presenting a clear
and subtle analysis of complex, little researched, but important
social patterns associated with that trademark of modern times, the
'nation' or ethnic group."--Jeremy King, Mount Holyoke College,
author of "Budweisers into Czechs and Germans"
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