The social genesis of Anzac nationalism

Title: The social genesis of Anzac nationalism
Creator: Morris, Barry
Relation: Legends of People Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka p. 339-362
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2012
Description: In Legends of People, Myths of State, Kapferer describes Anzac Day ceremonies as expressing a people-versus-state dynamic. The ethnography is based on the rites performed at the state capitals. My concern here is with the sociohistorical evolution of the rite, especially in the contexts of small towns away from state centers and the processes whereby Anzac became systematized into the kind of state ceremonial upon which Kapferer concentrates. I will take up the matter of the internal dynamics of the rite, that Kapferer outlines and explore its changing significance. In particular I discuss the rite as one in which the people/state dynamic has become increasingly a device of state control in terms of what Deleuze and Guattari describe as an "apparatus of capture".
Description: New and Revised
Subject: Anzac Day; nationalism; ceremony
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1327293
Identifier: uon:25628
Identifier: ISBN:9780857454362
Language: eng

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