Encounters with Nationalism

Ernest Gellner was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1984 to August 1993, before which he had been Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He is now head of research at the Central European University and divides his time between Prague and Cambridge, where he is a fellow of King's College. His previous Blackwell publications are Nations and Nationalism (1983), The Concept of Kinship (1986) and Reason and Culture (1992).