ANTH20011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Three Witches, Endogamy, Premature Ejaculation
28 Jul 2018
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For a national project to be successful it must assume the status of an ontological doctrine. Amongst the means by which ontological doctrinal status is achieved metaphor is central. National territorial incursion conceptualised as conquest and rape. Constellations (e. g. ) colonial constellations of nations) conceptualised as family. In turn, nationalisms prescribe idealised forms of gendered and sexualised behaviour. Good national men are protectors, and women are sexually submissive. Goof national men are protectors, and women are reproducers (of household and kin) *the extremity of the stereotypes is accentuated in the former-yugoslav context by the balkan- wide cultural formation of the honor and shame syndrome". Communist party bureaucrats (targets of the nationalist anti-bureaucratic revolution") Bad national men typically labeled as gay and effeminate, and sexually inadequate. Bad national women do not reproduce (with co-national men): Bad national women typically labeled as lesbian and butch (key offenders: the three.
