Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict Book

List of figures     x
Preface     xiii
Introduction: easy questions and hard answers, what are they fighting about?     1
The political psychology of competing narratives     30
Narratives and performance: ritual enactment and psychocultural dramas in ethnic conflict     63
Loyalist parades in Northern Ireland as recurring psychocultural dramas     88
Where is Barcelona? Imagining the nation without a state     127
Digging up the past to contest the present: politics and archeology in Jerusalem's Old City     154
Dressed to express: Islamic headscarves in French schools     191
The politics of memory and memorialization in post-apartheid South Africa     224
Enlarging South Africa's symbolic landscape     251
Flags, heroes, and statues: inclusive versus exclusive identity markers in the American South     280
Culture's central role in ethnic conflict     312
References     329
Index     350