@article{23585a41608c4439bf51ad571be6c0d4,
title = "Ethnicity, state formation, and conscription in postcolonial Iraq: The case of the yazidi kurds of jabal sinjar",
author = "Nelida Fuccaro",
note = "Funding Information: Author's note: Research for this article was supported by the Italian Ministry of Public Education. I thank Peter Sluglett and Sami Zubaida for suggestions and constructive criticism. 'i will use the name Yazidis as it is usually found in the European and Muslim sources which I employed in this article. {"}Yazidis{"} is the Arabic form of the Kurdish {"}Ezdini.{"} I shall use the term {"}ethnicity{"} as an analytical and descriptive category indicating subsocietal divisions in modern nation-states. These divisions usually correspond to prenational social groupings as suggested in M. J. Estman and I. Rabinovic, eds., Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988). For a debate on the applicability of the concept of ethnie to tribal groups in the Middle East, see B. Tibi, {"}The Simultaneity of the Unsimultaneous: Old Tribes and Imposed Nation-States in the Modern Middle East,{"} in Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East, ed. P. S. Khoury and J. Kostiner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 127-52.",
year = "1997",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1017/S002074380006520X",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
pages = "559--580",
journal = "International Journal of Middle East Studies",
issn = "0020-7438",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "4",
}