ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Ethnic Nationalism, Religious Nationalism, Atheism
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How war affects family and friendships in bosnia. It illustrates how nationalism is an imagined community in the sense that it is culturally constructed: the cultivation of this happens over the three-month period. The problem: most people do not view their own identities as shaped by culture, they believe they are an intrinsic part of their being, that they are primordial; something they are born with. It created ethnocentric attitudes and can lead to stereotyping. It creates dichotomies in the us versus them argument. In the film watched, we see that it is an ethnic nationalism: mark juerge(cid:374)s(cid:373)eyer (cid:862)the glo(cid:271)al rise of religious natio(cid:374)alis(cid:373)(cid:863, mark is looking at defining religious nationalism and he wants to know why there is a. Stages: despair over secular nationalism disaffection with culture of the modern west, notions of individualism, secularism, democracy, and capitalism; critiques of colonial exploitation, and eager to hasten decolonization.