MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

ASM4450

Nationalism: an anthropological perspective

Penny Graham

Synopsis The subject will examine the genesis of the nationalist thought in non-Western societies (Indian, Japanese, West African, Arab etc.) to point to parallelism in development, and the comparability and similarity of Western derivative and the indigenous content. It will also look at the social reformist, secularist and fundamentalist ideas that go into the making of the national-sectarian identities.

Assessment Written (9000 words): 100%

Recommended texts

• Anderson B Imagined communities Verso, 1983
• Chaterjee P Nationalist thought and the colonial consciousness Zed Press, 1986
• Hobsbawm E J Nations and nationalism since 1780: Program, myth, reality CUP, 1990