Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove

Ernest Gellner was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, before which he had been since 1962 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 books include Nations and Nationalism (1983), The Concept of Kinship (1986), Reason and Culture (1992), Encounters with Nationalism (1994) and Conditions of Liberty (1994).