{"product_id":"9780226429908-represented-communities-fiji-and-world","title":"Represented Communities","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFiji and World Decolonization\u003cbr\u003eThis volume offers and extensive critique of Benedict Anderson's deepitions of colonial history, his comparative method, and his political anthropology.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1983 Benedict Anderson's \u003ci\u003eImagined Communities\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, in \u003ci\u003eRepresented Communities\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSophisticated and impassioned, this book will further anthropology's contribution to the understanding of contemporary nationalisms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57594981384566,"sku":"9780226429908","price":31.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40625534.jpg?v=1775728974","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780226429908-represented-communities-fiji-and-world","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}