1. See Charles Taylor, Sources of The Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
2. For a discussion and critique of empirical and normative theories, see Richard J. Bernstein, The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory (London: Methuen and Co., 1979).
3. Isaiah Berlin, ‘Does Political Theory Still Exist?’, in Peter Laslett and W.G. Runciman (eds.), Philosophy, Politics and Society, Second Series (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1964), p. 8.
4. An empirical theory is not necessarily incapable of conceiving of more than one type of ethnicity. For two such exceptions, see Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Us and Them in Modern Societies: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Mauritius, Trinidad and Beyond (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1992)
5. Jan Nederveen Pietrse, ‘Deconstructing/Reconstructing Ethnicity’, Nations and Nationalism (Vol. 3, No. 3, 1997), pp. 365–95.