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   The allure of essentialism and extremist ideologies

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jonatan Kurzwelly --- , South Africa Hamid Fernana --- , South Africa Muhammad Elvis Ngum --- , South Africa

   This paper examines different reasons that make essentialist thinking, and by extension extremist ideologies based on such logic, attractive to individuals. Drawing from theories of personal and social identities, we examine the benefits derived from adopting an essentialist and reductionist...

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