ANTH245 2007-10-30

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Do Virtual Communities Exist?

Imagined Communities

• See Anderson1997

Community and Imagination

• Anderson's argument
• Applies to all forms of social organization
• Role of ritual is to create this consciousness

Imagination and Symbolic Form

• Newspapers
• The Novel
• Language
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
• Also: folklore, etc.