ANTH20011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bamar People, Turkish Nationalism, Northern Kurdish
28 Jul 2018
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The process of perceiving and portraying someone or a group of people as fundamentally different, and usually inferior, to oneself/ves. Other" serves to create the notion of self. Other" serves as a means of legitimating expropriation. Concerned with the struggle between ego and internal other". Sometimes, especially in ethnic conflicts with cultural close groups, the internal other is exteriorised (e. g. dawson) E. g. in serbian nationalism, bosnians were rendered as islamic fundamentalists. State presents bamar as self v hierarch of ethnic others, with rohingya as ultimate other. Other ethnic groups other state and bamar by derogatory nomenclature of p"yaw". E. g. in serbian nationalism, serbs rendered as balkan others (to europeans) to legitimate acts of barbarism. Barbarism strategically deployed to represent conflict as a primordial one of ancient ethnic hatreds. Made possible in the case of serbia by its liminal" position as simultaneously european and balkan. On one hand, leaders present themselves as honest and rational" europeans, when signing peace agreements.
