ANTH20011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: European Central Bank, Moral Panic, Yasser Arafat
28 Jul 2018
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Expansion of different empires ---> formation of ethnic and then ethnonational groups. Methods of managing the slav v ethnonational relationship: Primordialist" explanation - emergence of ancient ethnic hatreds that came about because of the collapse of communism in europe. The collapse of communism fostered the dissolution, but for reasons beyond it now failing to keep ethnic identification in check. Bosnia is always likely to be a place where war is most violent because there is no ethnic group with an overall ethnic majority. Form of war = serbian greaterism disguised as federalism. Winning the peace when serbia in territorial ascendency. The first step in ethnic-national dissolution is, invariably, the representation of some groups as. Other" to one"s own, and one"s own group as other" to them. The othering of ethnic groups by geo-political powers. Othering of the self (of one"s own ethnic group from others) Othering within the self (of one"s ethnic identities from ones other ethnic identities)
