![]() ![]() He returns repeatedly to the idea of ‘Peruvianization’, which “shows that from the start the nation was conceived in language, not in blood” (p. ![]() Language is the main subject of his analysis, and it is language that binds these imagined communities together - in contrast, for example, with pre-bourgeois aristocracies bound together by kinship. The entire book is concerned with vernaculars, languages-of-state, print-language and forms of words. Third, Anderson is focused above all on language. The development of European nationalism was characterised by ‘official nationalisms’ - “an anticipatory strategy adopted by dominant groups which are threatened with marginalisation or exclusion from an emerging nationally-imagined community.” (p.101 in the 2016 Verso edition). Second, Anderson argues that the origin of nationalism is in Latin American creole resistance to the metropole between 17, not in Europe. First, Anderson defines a nation as a “sovereign limited imagined political community”. I took three big ideas from Imagined Communities. ![]()
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