ANTH205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Militarism, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Masculinity
13 Apr 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Warfare part 2: fallen elites and constructing symbolism of the. Taking the restraint against killing seriously and the challenge of getting humans to kill. The business of war and the modern globalized state. As it is about conflicts regarding ideologies and value systems. Nationalism is the sense of pride in a nation. You can think of nationalism as similar to ethnicity but defined by the borders of a nation-state. Ethnicities, in contrast, are not restricted by political boundaries. The only upper limit to state growth is the amount of food it can grow. States need to employ a strong form of agriculture. Social organization within a state is generally obtained from kinship. Looking at bands, kinship was the primary form of organization, but in the state society, there are (cid:511)u(cid:510)erous other (cid:479)or(cid:510)s that or(cid:480)a(cid:511)ize people"s li(cid:922)es. Class system can be as much about kinship and lineage as it is about wealth. Ex: dynasties, such as the kennedy family.
