Book Review: Ambivalent Europeans. Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta, by Jon P. Mitchell. London & New York: Routledge, 2002
Book Review: Ambivalent Europeans. Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta, by Jon P. Mitchell. London & New York: Routledge, 2002

Summary/Abstract: Europe as an object of study became among social and cultural anthropologists popular from 1960s when anthropology started its research of local communities in the Mediterranean. Later shifted its interest also to other parts of Europe. Since the beginning of 1990s there is also a demand for more studies of European culture and identity, as they are related to European integration, from both, inside of anthropology as well as outside the discipline. It is not only because of anthropological well-developed studies of nationalism and national identities -these phenomena work on every level of EU discussion and integration - but also because of anthropological approaches which less depend on the western ethnocentrism.

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