ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mary Douglas, Identity Politics, Italian Unification
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Religion and society: mary douglas, 1921-2007, religion extends social relations to the sacred (durkheim, mary douglas), religion often supports power arrangements, may be regarded as the source of all authority, for example: god as father, as king. The divine: source of the social order but is located beyond it: krishna and the gopi women. Lecture themes: national identities are constructed, imagined, and they change, nation a unit constructed out of continuity and diversity, national identity is a matter of practicing imagined community. , language and nation, depoliticization. The idea that the concept of the nation hides politics: politics (in our sense) has to do with social relations: relations among groups of people within and between societies (politics in this sense is not just about government. ) Identities are multiple, flexible, and changing: the homogeneous nation - an impossible construction, always in the making. A nation without borders is not a nation - donald trump.
