Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. Foreword VII
4. PART I THE THEORY, HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE NATION
5. 1. Controversies Surrounding the Concept of Nation 1
6. 2. Historical Perspective 31
7. 3. "Patria "—Fatherland, Homeland— as the Correlate of the Nation 41
8. PART II THE CULTURALISTIC SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
9. 4. The Complexity and Diversity of National Symbolic Communities 67
10. 5. National Stereotypes and the Concept of National Identity 78
11. 6. Personal Identity as Related to National Identification and to the Appropriation of National Culture— the Valence of National Culture 92
12. 7. Empirical Materials—Concepts and Methods 102
13. PART III NATIONAL CONVERSIONS
14. 8. National Conversion as a Borderland Phenomenon 125
15. 9. The Polish Conversion of Albert Winkler 136
16. 10. German Conversions: Arrested or Realized 153
17. PART IV NATIONAL MINORITIES—PERIPHERIES OF THE DOMINANT CULTURE
18. 11. Variants of Ukrainity in the Light of Autobiographies 170
19. 12. The Problem of Belarussian Nationality in the Autobiographical Approach 194
20. 13. Silesian National Dilemmas: the Older Generation of Silesians 223
21. 14. Silesian National Dilemmas: the Younger Generation of Silesians 240
22. 15. Open and Closed National Attitudes in a Borderland Situation 266
23. PART V THE CENTER OF NATIONAL CULTURE
24. 16. A Portrait of the Wartime Generation in the Background 286
25. 17. Young Poles in the Period of the Democratic Breakthrough 311
26. 18. Young Poles Facing Others. An Open or a Closed Nation? 345
27. PART VI AN EPILOGUE ON EMIGRATION
28. 19. Scales of Polishness 377
29. 20. Józef Czapski: Polish Identification and Cultural Polyvalence 383
30. Conclusions. The Nation: What for? 395
31. Bibliography 407
32. Name Index 435