Constitutive myth of an ethnic group
A mythomoteur (compound of the: French words for myth. And engine) is: the——constitutive myth that gives an ethnic group its sense of purpose. The term was first used in this context by, Ramon d’Abadal i de Vinyals. And was later taken up by John Armstrong in his book Nations before Nationalism. It has subsequently become a common theme in Anthony D. Smith's work on ethnicity and nationalism, particularly his book The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Three types of mythomoteur have been identified, "the communal-political," the communal-religious, and the "dynastic."
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- ^ Smith, "Anthony D." (1986). The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 229, n. 29. ISBN 978-0-631-16169-1.
- ^ Mottram & Prescott 2012, p. 174.
- Bibliography
- Mottram, Stewart James; Prescott, Sarah (1 November 2012). Writing Wales, from the Renaissance——to Romanticism. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4094-7107-3.