What is a small country? Is a country small because of the size of
its territory or its population? Can smallness be relative, based
on the subjective perception of a country's inhabitants or in
comparison with one's neighbors? How does smallness, however it is
defined, shape a country and its relations with other countries?
Answers to these questions, among others, can be found in Small
Countries, the first and only anthropological study of smallness as
a defining variable. In terms of population size, some two thirds
of the countries of the world can now be considered small
countries, and they can be found in all world regions except North
America and East Asia. They exhibit great diversity with regard to
culture, history, and institutional arrangements, so there can be
no model of any "typical" small country. Yet the essays collected
by Ulf Hannerz and Andre Gingrich identify a range of family
resemblances in such areas as internal connectivity and
sensibilities of identity. Contributors describe a number of
similar problems with which small countries must cope, on domestic
levels as well as in their transnational and global encounters. For
some small countries, challenges such as media organization and
branding have a negative impact on real or perceived vulnerability,
while for others, the same challenges facilitate success stories.
Comparative case studies cover a diverse set of regions, including
the Caribbean, Middle East, Africa, and Europe, and employ diverse
anthropological approaches. Tacit assumptions about scale,
identities, and networks in everyday social life are best revealed
through close, interpretive effort. At times a sense of shared
belonging comes to the fore with particular events, such as a
national crisis or an unexpected success in international sports,
offering scope for situational analyses. In showing how small
countries confront globalization, Small Countries reveals how the
sense of scale intensifies when the world as a whole shrinks.
Contributors: Regina F. Bendix, Aleksandar Boskovic, Virginia R.
Dominguez, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Andre Gingrich, Beng-Lan Goh,
Ulf Hannerz, Sulayman N. Khalaf, Eva-Maria Knoll, Jacqueline
Knoerr, Orvar Loefgren, Joao de Pina-Cabral, Don Robotham, Cris
Shore, Richard Wilk, Helena Wulff.
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