ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Civic Nationalism, Occasionalism, Acculturation
12 Apr 2017
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Discourse- language people actually use to talk about acts of warfare! Terms used like collateral damage when talking about human death ! Acts as mean to desensitize general public; reducing human life to terminology like collateral damage ! Often take use of physical violence within main framework to maintain order! Ethnic cleansing- outright genocide for particular ethnic group to be a problem; scapegoated for enviro/economic/political for nation state! Attempts to eliminate particular culture, eliminating their culture/way of life ! Social death of particular culture/ethnic group ! Talked about concept of forced contraception/sterilization ! Residential schools- idea if we can whiten first nations population, we can remove them physically from their homes, we can teach them english and french cultural values ! In order to look at ethnic nationalism, it is necessary to de ne a few terms ! Approx 275 nation states, shifting exible category! Nation- not the same as nation state, concept of nation was de ned by benedict.
