Loring M. Danforth is Professor of Anthropology at Bates College. He is the author of The Death Rituals of Rural Greece and Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement, both available from Princeton University Press.
"Honorable Mention for the 1997 Senior Book Award of the American
Ethnological Society"
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1996"
"Danforth, an anthropologist, takes one through the ferociously
juxtaposed claims and counterclaims, and he explains why the issues
set people off with such intensity by fitting the case into modern
anthropological thought about national identity, ethnic
nationalism, and the role of culture....Danforth struggles mightily
to maintain his scholarly detachment amid one of the more explosive
topics in the universe, and for the most part he succeeds."
*Foreign Affairs*
"A significant contribution both theoretically to the study of
ethnic and national identity and specifically to those interested
in Balkan politics."---Adamantia Pollis, American Political Science
Review
"A superb case study both of the conflict between nationalism and
ethnic aspirations and of the curious parallelisms in their
development. . . . It is a level-headed, humane, and very timely
political intervention in a quarrel that continually threatens to
become more than a war of words."
*Journal of Modern Greek Studies*
"[An] engaging, original, timely, and conscientiously written
study. . . . This is a well-written work and a major contribution
to the study of national consciousness and
nation-building."---Philip Shashko, American Historical Review
"Loring Danforth humanizes the Macedonian conflict, shows us real
people as they live this conflict, and makes clear that, despite
its unique features, this struggle over ethnic and national
identity is shared with other groups throughout the world. A good,
rapid read filled with the fruit of first-rate, on-the-scene
digging into people's lives."---Lou Panov, The Boston Book Review
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