 | Paul Antze, Michael Lambek - Psychology - 1996 - 310 pages
...Anderson has captured this idea in the title of his book, Imagined Communities. "Communities," he writes, "are to be distinguished not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined" (1991: 6). We have been arguing that this can be applied equally to the self. "Imagined" is not to... | |
 | James P. Jankowski, I. Gershoni - Arab countries - 1997 - 404 pages
...to nations. In fact, all communities larger than primordial villages of face-to-face contact . . . are imagined. Communities are to be distinguished,...falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined [emphasis in original]. 19 Anderson not only casts aside the above polarity, he also makes it clear... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 478 pages
...and poetry in early English Romanticism) substantially confirms Benedict Anderson's suggestion that "communities are to be distinguished, not by their...falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined" (Imagined Communities, 6). Quite the embodiment of the solid moral constitution that resonates in her... | |
 | Kathryn Woodward - Business & Economics - 1997 - 372 pages
...discover places from which to speak. Communities. Benedict Anderson argues in Imagined Commanities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined (Anderson, 1982, p. 15). This is the vocation of modern black cinemas: by allowing us to see and recognise... | |
 | José Esteban Muñoz - History - 1997 - 380 pages
...defines itself (and is defined) in relationship to Others. If communities, as Benedict Anderson argues, "are to be distinguished not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined," 1 it is not surprising that the boundaries of the Latin American nation or Latino community have often... | |
 | Diana Taylor - History - 1997 - 332 pages
...construction of communal identity. "Communities are to be distinguished," as Benedict Anderson noted, "not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined" (15). Public spectacles provide an arena for such imaginings and function as a site for the mutual... | |
 | Craig J. Calhoun - Political Science - 1997 - 180 pages
...is in this sense that Benedict Anderson has described nations as 'imagined communities'. As he says, 'all communities larger than primordial villages of...falsity-genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined' (1991: 6). There are other ways of distinguishing communities, of course, such as their scale, extent... | |
 | Michael Camille - Art - 1998 - 420 pages
...the Luttrell Psalter three years later. Benedict Anderson's concept of 'imagined communities', which are to be distinguished 'not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined', is crucial to this study, which seeks to understand the psalter as both serving and representing such... | |
 | Ken Booth, Michael Cox, Timothy Dunne - History - 1998 - 272 pages
...contradictory ways. Anderson gave impetus to understandings of the nation as imagined, asserting that nations 'are to be distinguished not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined'.30 Gathering cultural studies, postcolonial and feminist writings within their collection... | |
 | Greg Clingham - History - 1998 - 212 pages
...memory and forgetfulness that enter into the construction of the concept, "nation." Such formations "are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined."2 The numerous accounts we give of Enlightenment similarly bespeak varied allegiances, genealogies,... | |
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In fact, all communities larger than primordial villages of face-toface contact (and perhaps even these) are imagined. Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined. 
