Represented Communities

Fiji and World Decolonization

By: John D. Kelly, Martha Kaplan

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Hardcover | 1 September 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Nation and Decolonization On the Actual Origins of Nation-States
Time and the Global Against the Homogeneous, Empty Communities in Contemporary Social Theory
Diaspora and World War, Blood and Nation in Fiji and Hawai'i
"They Cannot Represent Themselves" Colonial Communities in Fiji, 1936 to 1947
"Blood on the Grass and Dogs Will Speak" Ritual Politics and the Nation in Independent Fiji
Constituting Fiji Communities, the Nation-State, and the Coup of 2000
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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