Anthropology 4400E Lecture 26: Anthro 4400 Jan 22 Lecture Notes
25 Jan 2018
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Monday, january 22, 2018 anthro 4400 jan 22 lecture notes on catherine"s presentation. Talking about this according to hershman and how the census began really fast. People weren"t really sure when it began. The primary purpose was to count people going into army. Wanted to classify people accordingly and segregate them. New census failed to align religious communities. Speci cally talks about siam at some point. Maps started getting coloured and then you could simply colour in spaces and name them. Divides article into nationalism, culture and his re ections. 400-300,00 tamils massacred in the streets of sri lanka. Called black july, the last week of july. When he talks about nationalist they were emphasizing the thousands of years of history they had. Emphasizing unity yet people saying there was a lot of disunity. Used a lot of anthropological concepts like static, functionalism etc. Says anthropology and nationalism has a lot of similarities.
