ANTH10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Aarhus, Zygmunt Bauman, Mary Douglas

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH10001
• Professor: Andrew Dawson

Document Summary

Change of object of study: from stateless to state-based societies. Kinship as preeminent form of political organization. Predominant focus of contemporary political anthropology nationalism. Nation - a group of people who share (or share the aspiration of acquiring) a common territory and a state. Nationality - the form of identification associated with the ethnic group and the nation. Nationalism: the forms of political mobilisation associated with the nation. The form of nationalism in which the state derives political legitimacy from the active participation of its citizenry, from the degree to which it represents the "will of the people": ethnic nationalism. Ethnic nationalism the form of political mobilization associated with a group of people who share a common descent, language and culture and who also share (or share the aspiration of acquiring) a common territory and state. Handler and segal trace its roots to the mid-eighteenth century in europe and amongst.