Next week Nationalism Readings Benedict Andersen Western Nationalism
Next week: Nationalism Readings: Benedict Andersen “Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism” Phyllis K Herman “Remaking Rama for the Modern Sightseer: It’s a Small Hindu World After All. ” How do groups create a sense of nation?
Next week: Nationalism
Next week: Nationalism Is “Nationalism” an outdated concept, or does it still work? What are the different ways in which nationalist identity is created and shaped – by the state, by individuals and groups? Thailand’s (informal) national motto: Chat, Satsana, Phra Mahakasat Nation, Religion, King
Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism What was the article’s main point? What would your i. d. for “turban” be?
The importance of understanding cultural traditions
Questions of Dress: the burka Fall 2011: France begins enforcing the ban against wearing covering that hides the face. Exceptions: Motor-cycle helmets; Face-masks used for health purposes; Face-masks, protective gear for sports Sunglasses, hats, scarves etc. , that don’t obscure the face; Decorative masks used incarnivals or religious processions
Questions of Dress: Hijab
2005 APEC meeting, S. Korea
APEC 2007, Sydney
APEC Hawaii? President Obama Prez. Hu Jintao, China Prez. , Medvedev, Russia Yudhoyono, Indonesia PM Gillard, Australia PM Lee, Singapore Prez. Calderón, Mexico, Prez. Piñera, Chile Tsang of Hong Kong, Prez. Aquino, Philippines Prez. Truong, Vietnam
King Chulalongkorn of Siam (Rama V) chual
sisowath King Sisowath of Cambodia r. 1904 -1927
How did the Western “gaze” change the way native peoples presented themselves? 19 th c. Hawaii portraits
How did the Western “gaze” change the way people presented – and viewed -- themselves? 20 th c. Vietnam: Ao Dai
19 th c. Thai women
1950 s: Queen Sirikit began to define Thai “traditional” dress
21 st c. “traditional” wedding costumes from a commercial studio
Balinese wedding, 2004
The Western gaze in Bali
The reality
Whose gaze?
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