HIST 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Heteropatriarchy
14 Nov 2016
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Connecting identity not just to nation states but to indg organizations. Kinship is still important way for indg peoples to identify themselves. Not just determined bu blood, also where you are living, etc. Ex: clan members must not b related by blood. Fluid, not homogeneous not static, like nss. Can b bound to ns, they can b reproduced internationally. Lang, relig, terr are all means of identifying people. Ks extends beyond family and known relatives. Ns exercises identity thru enforcing borders, laws, social constructs. Ns construct used to fit indg ppls into western identity articulations. The rise of social science and forming ethnic identity . The nation-state as uniform and spatially bounded. Scholars assumed that this was how ks networks were. Kinship as indigenous institutions of self-determination and different from the. The legacy of tribe construction in indigenous history nation-state. Idea of tribe simplifies societies, mutes self determination/governance, languages, ks relations.
