POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Clifford Geertz, Primordialism
8 Nov 2016
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Nationalism is primarily a political principle that holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent . Political and national unit need to overlap. Every state has more than one nation. Example: we may have a roman state, without roman nationalism. Quebec demands that they want their own political unit absence of nationalism. Nations are constructed product of modernity. Clifford geertz: anthropological primordialism (exclusive national boundaries) People take on the language of their parents. States are indeed the creation of modernity. In modern world, states have contained multiple primordial communities. Anthony d. smith: ethnic origins of nations (exclusive national boundaries) He sees an important role for modernity, yet he is not a modernist. There is a core, and that core has an identity. And it has the foundation to what we now call national identity. Benedict anderson imagined communities ( civic inclusive) Theory of nations that are inclusive and modernist constructivist.
