ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Imagined Communities, Nationstates, Ethnocide
13 Apr 2016
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Nation-states are one possibility out of many potential political formations. A state" is a form of society characterized by a hierarchical ranking of people and centralized political control. A nation" is a collection of people who share a common language, world view 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 communities ) A nation-state" is a political community that has clearly defined territorial borders and a centralized authority: nationalism. The world view" of members of a nation-state. In order to understand the development of nations and nationalism, we need to recognize 3 factors: 1) the importance of print capitalism 2) the impact of the reformation led by martin. Luther and 3) the increased use of particular vernaculars as administrative languages. These factors laid the bases for national consciousness: nation-states and trade.
