ABSTRACT
The evolutionary line leading to the powerful "sense of belonging" that the nationalism-is-modern school cannot deny but cannot accomodate is simple. Thus the nationalism-is-modern school has a hard time dealing with the "tribal" elements of nations, and the political anthropologists often do not want to see the underpinnings of the human band or tribe as lying in the primate troop. The shotgun marriages of modern nationalism are suddenly on the rocks—maintained only by force, duplicity, and economic necessity. Yugoslavia is only the worst-case scenario of the "new nationalism" which is simply the very old Balkan nationalism kept under wraps by Tito as heir to the Hapsburg and Ottoman burden. What was perhaps surprising to the West, struggling with the painful birth of a supranational unity, was the virulence with which ancient nationalist "freedoms" should have come so rapidly to dominate.
