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VERLAGSTEXT: / 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. / / AUS DEM INHALT: / Introduction: Exploring small countries / Andre Gingrich and Ulf Hannerz / 100 percent pure New Zealand": national branding and the paradoxes of scale / Cris Shore / After 22 July 2011: Norwegians together / Thomas Hylland Ericksen / The Scandinavian cluster: small countries with big egos / Orvar Lo¿fgren / Red dot on the map: Singapore, size and the problems of success / Goh Beng Lan / "Li likkle but wi tallawah": soft power and smallness in Jamaica / Don Robotham / On chutzpah countries and "shitty little countries" / Virginia R. Dominguez / Portugal and the dynamics of smallness / Joa¿o de Pina-Cabral / Two countries in the Alps: Austrian and Swiss presentations of self for internal and global consumption / Regina F. Bendix / Serbia and the surplus of history: being small, large, and small again / Aleksandar Boskovic / Blood and other precious resources: vulnerability and social cohesion on the Maldives / Eva-Maria Knoll / Belize: a country but not a nation / Richard Wilk / A war and after: Sierra Leone reconnects, within itself and with the world / Jacqueline Kno¿rr / An emirate goes global: the cultural making of Abu Dubai / Sulayman Khalaf / Smiles and smallness: jokes in Yemen and in Palestine / Andre Gingrich, with Zulfokar Al-Dubai and Noura Kamal / Greater than its size: Ireland in literature and life / Helena Wulff / Swedish encounters: end notes of a native son / Ulf Hannerz