ANTH 1003 Chapter : Friday 10 17 14
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Governments and territories that are identified and culturally homogenous populations and national histories. States construct national identities by drawing boundaries between insiders and outsiders. People who live within boundaries have an identity based on a common language and shared customs and culture. Imagined will never meet or know all other members of nation, but have sense of being part of one community . Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined (pg. Limited even the largest nations have finite boundaries. Sovereign born from the age of enlightenment and revolution acknowledge pluralism and aspire to freedom. Community conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship (pg. Created out of ottoman empire after wwi by british. Estab a monarchy, left in charge when the british left the nation in 1930. Fast forward: after suddam hussein overthrown by the u. s. led invasion in 2003, the nation of iraq faced incredible challenges.
