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Represented Communities
John D. Kelly
Martha Kaplan
其他書名
Fiji and World Decolonization
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2001-09
主題
History / World
History / Oceania
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Political Science / World / Australian & Oceanian
Social Science / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Archaeology
ISBN
0226429881
9780226429885
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OUkt-adlxQwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.