ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ethnocide, First Nations, Imagined Communities
9 Nov 2017
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Lecture 9: what is a nation-state and how did it form. Lecture 9: what is a nation-state and how did it form: review. Nation-states are one possibility out of many potential political formations. Concept of a nation state is recent that is an important point, the way we think about the world around us it a new concept in the 19th century. Nation state is one possibility political, cultural formation and it has become important. A state" is a form of society characterized by a hierarchical ranking of people and centralized political control. We see development of economic growth like agriculture and irrigation. Where large cites were developing and intense competition of resources. What we see in states is more complex systems, it is only around one skill that is their jobs (occupational specialization) you then see a hiearchy that is happening.
