ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Arjun Appadurai, Dependency Theory, Flag Of Canada

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nicole Hayes

Document Summary

Trees are often used as symbols nation is rooted in the soil of the territory : canadian flag. Kinship is seen as important for bringing a nation together: motherland . Essentializing discourses have been used to oppress indigenous peoples: unflattering stereotypes by people who oppressed them. These same discourses can be used by indigenous peoples: can be used strategically by aboriginal activists. Temptation to exterminate deviants: exterminating people who don"t fit in. The nazi holocaust, indonesia, guatemala, yugoslavia, rwanda, east timor, ), isis : holocaust is a very extreme example, people using violence to enforce their idea of nationality. Genocides did not used to be as common and barbaric as they are today: due to new technology it can now be organized, genocide did occur in the past but not on the same scale. In amazon rainforest their land is being destroyed.