ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Imagined Communities, O Canada, Ethnocide
8 May 2018
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ANTH 1120
November 13, 2017
What is a nation-state and how did it form?
The nation-state and nationalism.
Assignment 2 is due in 2 weeks.
Exam: three sections
1. Definitions of terms
2. Short answer questions, three to four sentences
3. Long answer, one to two paragraphs
No multiple choice. Two hours in length. Terms and questions will come directly from review
sheet, available this week.
Review:
● Worldviews, how are they formed and why do they change.
○ Social and economic conditions shape worldview
○ When worldview change: speculation is a common practice that all humans
engage in.
○ Marginalized individuals are often forced to speculate on the world around
them, often with incomplete understandings about the world around them
○ Worldview come when two cultures clash with each other, ex. Through
colonialism.
○ Dene Tha, how christianity was imposed, and how the Dene Tha shaped it
○ Revitalization Movements often combining information from two worldviews
○ Syncretization: rastafarianism
○ The National Ting: why rastafarianism is spreading in popularity in third world
countries amongst immigrants
What is a nation state?
● Nation-state is on possibility out of many potential political formations
○ Quite a recent historical development, the 19th century.
○ Not the only way in which we can organize our political world; social,
economic, ecological formations.
○ Dene Tha and numerous first nations are not nation-state, they didn’t have a
centralized authority structure associated with the nation-state
○ Is the most powerful political formation in the world today
● A “state” is a form of society characterized by a hierarchical ranking of people and
centralized political order (control).
○ a territory considered as an organized political community under one
government
○ See them existing way before the nation-state. Alongside the development of
the state is the rise of agriculture, required leaders who could organize labour
for the large scale work projects. Also alongside the establishment of large
cities.
Document Summary
Exam: three sections: definitions of terms, short answer questions, three to four sentences, long answer, one to two paragraphs. Terms and questions will come directly from review sheet, available this week. Worldviews, how are they formed and why do they change. When worldview change: speculation is a common practice that all humans engage in. Marginalized individuals are often forced to speculate on the world around them, often with incomplete understandings about the world around them. Worldview come when two cultures clash with each other, ex. Dene tha, how christianity was imposed, and how the dene tha shaped it. Revitalization movements often combining information from two worldviews. The national ting: why rastafarianism is spreading in popularity in third world countries amongst immigrants. Nation-state is on possibility out of many potential political formations. Quite a recent historical development, the 19th century. Not the only way in which we can organize our political world; social, economic, ecological formations.
