ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ethnocide, Extortion, Canadian Identity
9 Dec 2015
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Imagined communities and the formation of the nation state. Nationalism is a shared world-view of members of the same nation- state. Wrote imagined communities and the formation of the nation state . Believed that nationalism is a cultural artefact that came together in. Nations are social constructs that imagined, and not even all members. Nations imagined as limited b/c even largest nation is finite. 18th century after the meeting of different forces. will get to know all: imaged as sovereign b/c a concept that was created on the emblem of freedom. Nation is imagined as a community b/c it is conceived as comradeship. Nationalism became a norm and model for all to follow. Three factors that developed nationalism and nations a fundamentally imagined, citizens find it very real: print capitalism, impact of the reformation led by martin luther (started criticizing, increased use of particular vernaculars as administrative religion) languages. These factors laid the base of national consciousness.
