In 1983 Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities revolutionized the anthropology of nationalism. Anderson argued that qprint capitalismq fostered nations as imagined communities in a modular form that became the culture of modernity. Now, in Represented Communities, John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan offer an extensive and devastating critique of Anderson's depictions of colonial history, his comparative method, and his political anthropology. The authors build a forceful argument around events in Fiji from World War II to the 2000 coups, showing how focus on qimagined communitiesq underestimates colonial history and obscures the struggle over legal rights and political representation in postcolonial nation-states. They show that the qself-determiningq nation-state actually emerged with the postwar construction of the United Nations, fundamentally changing the politics of representation. Sophisticated and impassioned, this book will further anthropology's contribution to the understanding of contemporary nationalisms.Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, 378a400. New York: D. Appleton and Co. Reprinted from Edinburgh Review, April 1839. aaa. 1860b. aMilla#39;s Essay on Government.a Essays ... n.d. aIndiaa#39;s Republic Day: The Other 26th January.
Title | : | Represented Communities |
Author | : | John D. Kelly, Martha Kaplan |
Publisher | : | University of Chicago Press - 2001-09-01 |
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