IS 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nuclear Family, Collective Identity, Myanmar
23 Dec 2018
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Lecture three: culture and belonging- self, identity, and. Infants develop capacity for independence and creative autonomy (permits overcoming of anxiety provoked by separation) Separation dynamics referred to as phallic ( involves learning how to become someone who desires more than a return to protection of the womb) Separation from mother represents a critical component of how culture shapes values and meanings. How this occurs differs from culture to culture. Western culture: separation revolves around a nuclear family. Ethnicity as a construction: the case of ethiopia. Prime minister (a political dynamic) represents centralized government (represents sovereign state) link of dynamic centralization (federal/central government) Ethnic unrest (a construction)- become ethnicized because of western impact. Unrest: driven by honor and kinship (resisting centralized government) National identity: sense that someone can be part of a nation and be loyal to honor and kinship. Theme: nations as a national construct vs. honor-kinship groups. Political conflict and cultural constructions of collective identity.
