Lectures on Politics and Economic Life: Lecture 6 - Nations, feud and war

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Description: Lecture given by Alan Macfarlane to first year students in Social Anthropology and Social and Political Sciences in 2007 and 2008 and filmed by Zilan Wang

Nations and nationalism, the invention of nations; theories of nationalism; consequences of nationalism; the invention of identities; organized violence through history; feuds and feuding; the development of war and its causes
Hann, chs. 12, 14
Thomas H.Eriksen, Ethnicity and Nationalism (2nd edn., 2002), ch.6
Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (1983)
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1991)
J. Black-Michaud, Cohesive Force (republished as Feuding Societies) (1975)
David Riches (ed.). The Anthropology of Violence (1986)


 
Created: 2018-03-23 17:13
Collection: Politics and Economic Life Lectures
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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