ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Age Of Enlightenment, Symbolic Power, O Canada
2 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Nationalism related to a particular geopolitical thinking known as the nation-state. Nation-state nation-states are one possibility out of many potential political formations. State a form of society characterized by a hierarchical ranking of people and centralized political control. Nation is a collection of people who share a common language, worldview and ancestry (ca definition) Alternative definition of the nation: the nation is an imagined political community"; it is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign (benedict anderson, imagined. Nation-state is a political community that has clearly defined territorial borders and a centralized authority. Many of the original states formed where there was a particular form of agricultural/resources. Different classes" (middle class, landowner class, peasant class, etc) Nationalism collection of ppl who share a common language, worldview or ancestry. The worldview" of members of a nation-state. (1) the belief in a national identity and emotional investments in that national identity.
