Being Danish: Paradoxes of Identity in Everyday Life

by Richard Jenkins

In Being Danish, Richard Jenkins offers a comprehensive, up-to-date look at modern Danish culture. Looking first at a small Danish town in the 1990s, he tracks how the idea of what it means to be Danish has evolved, moving through the 1990s to the 2005 controversy regarding the depiction of Muhammed in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten to the 2011 parliamentary election. Drawing on extensive archival material alongside ethnographic fieldwork,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8763538415
• ISBN13: 9788763538411
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Length: 361 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 8.5"