Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization

by John D. Kelly, Martha Kaplan, John Dunham Kelly

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226429903
• ISBN13: 9780226429908
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"