Ch.13

Question 1

Define political anthropology

Question 2

Identity and briefly describe the four political forms of human society:

Band

Tribe

Chiefdom

State

Question 3

Distinguish between nation and nation-state.

Question 4

How may a state be made into a nation (i.e., how would nationality play in)?

Question 5

What is meant by an imagined community?

Question 6

What is meant by the image of the Figian nation being a “three-legged stool”?

Question 7

Review the colonial period history of Fiji and its role in the creation of different statuses, race-based voting, and ultimately different imagined nations. How had Indo-Fijians and ethnic Fijians imagined different national communities (i.e., what were their different images of the nation)?

Question 8

Under section 32 of the Constitution Act (1982), what did the Canadian government recognize?

Question 9

What may be the most successful outcome of Indigenous peoples’ fight for self-determination in Canada?

Question 10

Briefly sum up the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (1993). What did this land claim settlement represent?

Question 11

As a result, what do many Indigenous peoples, both in Canada and around the world, hope?

Question 12

What is a diaspora?

Question 13

If members of a diaspora begin to organize in support of nationalist struggles in their homeland, what do they become?

Question 14

How has globalization created the emergence of the trans-border state (i.e., what has changed in the perspective of emigrants)? What category of citizen does this create?

Question 15

What do those who call for the establishment of full-fledged transnational nation-states challenge?