ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Identity Politics, English Canada, Multiculturalism In Canada

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Max Friesen

Document Summary

Nations are real and patriotic people would sacrifice their lives for their nation. However, they are socially constructed and not natural. Religion is a way for us to link reality" to the real. " it connects things we do know to things we do not know. Religion often supports power arrangements and may be regarded as the source of all authority (for example: god as father and as king. ) Divine creatures are allowed to do things that humans cannot do. Politics does not mean liberal vs ndp or pc parties, but instead how the city functions at the social level. Politics in this sense is not just about government, for example family politics. The homogeneous nation an impossible construction, always in the making. It operates in culture (as an idea), but its function is political (it is the foundation, potentially, of a state) The idea of nation" suggests homogeneity and boarders, where there is neither.