Represented Communities

Name: Represented Communities
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226429908
Price: 38.32 EUR
Availability: InStock

Fiji and World Decolonization

Автор: John D. Kelly, Martha Kaplan

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

Наличност: Външен склад в ограничено количество

Изпращаме след 13-18 дни

38.32 € 74.95 лв

In 1983 Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities" revolutionized the anthropology of nationalism. A...

Информация за книгата

Автор

John D. Kelly, Martha Kaplan

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2001

страници

240

EAN

9780226429908

Enbook ID

04546355

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

369

Размери

154 x 22 x 2

Пълно описание

In 1983 Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities" revolutionized the anthropology of nationalism. Anderson argued that "print capitalism" 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 "imagined communities" underestimates colonial history and obscures the struggle over legal rights and political representation in postcolonial nation-states. They show that the "self-determining" 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.

Може също да ви хареса