ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nazi Germany, Carpet Bombing, Acculturation
9 Apr 2018
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Hegemonic masculinity - dominant cultural ideas of maleness. Stories of male bravery are told in pictorial representations. Use language to distance themselves from consequences of actions. Destruction of human lives is hidden behind metaphors and euphemisms. Penetration aids (technology to get missles behind enemy lines) Surgical strikes (bombs that take out military targets) Think of carpets or christmas trees as every day simple things. First nations children forced to be taken away from their parents. Forced to follow stereotypes of english or french. Ethnic nationalism: when the nation is defined primarily in terms of ethnicity. This includes a myth of a shared heritage/ancestry. Means of forming an inclusive sense of identity; cohesion. Film: we are all neighbors 1993, tone bringa. How is ethnicity defined in terms of religion. About the gradually development of ethnic conflict in bosnia. Over short time frame of 3 months in 1993. Anthropologist went back to bosnia for first time after going in 1980s.
