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The mysterious Petersen

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The mysterious Petersen makes a cameo appearance in connection with the discussion of primordialism: "Primordialists have reformulated the "ancient hatreds" hypothesis and have focused more on the role of human nature. Petersen argues that the existence of hatred and animosity does not have to be rooted in history for it to play a role in shaping human behavior and action:..." Petersen doesn't appear in the bibliography or anywhere else. Banderswipe (talk) 18:00, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Banderswipe: It's Varshney saying that Petersen said that, so at least in a pedantic sense, the info and the quote are attributed correctly. You'll need to use an ocr tool like Tesseract (software) if you want to scan for words in Varshney rather than reading the full text (the pdf file appears to be a scan, without searchable plain text). I fixed the quotes per MOS:QWQ. The more difficult question remains: is it better to only cite Varshney, whose pdf is open access, or should Petersen 2002, presumably only an offline book, also be cited for completeness, with most of us (e.g. me) being unable (or lacking the time and interest to order an inter-library loan) to verify the content? And is Petersen 2002 especially notable for having said this? or is s/he someone who summarised the point well?
The ref is written Petersen, R. D, 2002. Understanding Ethnic Violence. New York: Cambridge University Press in Varshney. Petersen, R.D. does not currently appear to be Wikipedia-notable. Boud (talk) 20:39, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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