TY  - BOOK
AU  - Medeiros, Antonio
TI  - Two sides of one river: nationalism and ethnography in Galicia and Portugal
SN  - 9780857457240
U1  - 320.5409461 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Portugal
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Spain--Galicia Region
N1  - Translation of: Dois lados de um rio.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-269) and index
N2  - Galicia, the region in the northwest corner of Spain contiguous with Portugal, is officially known as the Autonomous Community of Galicia. It is recognized as one of the historical nationalities making up the Spanish state, as legitimized by the Spanish Constitution of 1978. Although Galicia and Portugal belong to different states, there are frequent allusions to their similarities. This study compares topographic and ethnographic descriptions of Galicia and Portugal from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand how the integration into different states and the existence of nationalist discourses resulted in marked differences in the historical representations of these two bordering regions of the Iberian Peninsula. The author explores the role of the imagination in creating a sense, over the last century and a half, of the national being and becoming of these two related peoples
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