ANTH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Imagined Communities
2 Jul 2019
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A sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imaged to be distinct from those outside the group . Origin myths create an identity, ethnic boundary markers. State: an organized system of political, economic, and military control within a geographically bounded space. Nation-state: a geographically bounded state whose population. Ethnicity created and put into motion shares a sense of culture and ancestry. Nationalism: the sense of pride in that nation. Ethnic interaction in the us is primarily: People will never meet but an image of unity out of diversity since a national identity is constructed. Colonialism was a powerful force of nation-building. Many europeans enhanced their identity through the colonial process. Other nations, such as the u. s. built an identity around resistance to, and fighting for their freedom from,
