Minorities

In yet another essay which discusses violence against women, Kumar notes that it is the deliberately poor definition of what constitutes rape and wife-beating that…

It would make sense the society of the newly established nation-state would incorporate both its previous, ‘historical memory’ based power within itself, whether theoretical, religious,…

Thus the current fundamentalist and nationalist mythologies insidiously create and define themselves in an essentialist fashion because they are needed in order to define boundaries…

These concepts of Anderson’s also seem valid today within the readings, and easily ‘borrowable’ in service of fundamentalism as well as nationalism. It is this…

In his book Imagined Communities, Anderson discusses the imagining and rise of nationalism. He lists several ideological changes that allowed the creation of this concept.…

It is fascinating to note the very same women who courageously and tirelessly worked side by side with men to bring their nation into existence…

One can also see how little effort it takes within the holy texts to generalize these recurrent motifs, and define as sacred the hypostatised cultural…

Fundamentalism Why is there a growing fundamentalist movement in a wide variety of disparate cultures today? Why are women almost invariably the mediums on which…

Originally written in… late 1999, I think? -for an anthropology class of the same name. This is an experiment to see how well (or not)…