Small Countries: Structures And Sensibilities Hardcover 1

Ulf Hannerz

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.

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Ulf Hannerz is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Andre Gingrich is Director of the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Andre Gingrich

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