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aeer-240	Vermeersch, Peter	Book Review: Being Góral: Identity Politics and Globalization in Postsocialist Poland, Deborah Cahalen Schneider	2006	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1097	32	42	Thus, besides being an intriguing thematically organized history of the town of Żywiec, this elegant book is a useful contribution to the wider literature on identity politics in Central Europe, not only because it offers a view Anthropology of East Europe Review Volume 24, No. 2 Page 104 into a relatively unknown case, but also because it shows that group identity is not simply a matter of “being,” that it is not simply the result of the prior existence of ethnic differentiation, but the result of the actions of contemporary economic elites deliberately promoting ethnic identity as a dominant political idiom. By examining not only the postcommunist period, but also the period of the Austro-Hungarian partitions, the interwar Polish state, the Nazi occupation and the communist period, Schneider finds that such processes of identity politics as a response to outside forces also occurred before 1989.	cache/aeer-240.pdf	txt/aeer-240.txt