{"title":"Martha Kaplan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartha Kaplan\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into cultural identities and social structures, providing readers with deeply researched perspectives on communities and their representations. Her works invite thoughtful reflection on how groups are portrayed and understood within broader educational and social contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e category, Kaplan's writings blend academic rigor with accessible prose, making complex subjects engaging for both scholars and curious readers interested in cultural studies and anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"represented-communities-by-martha-kaplan-9780226429908","title":"Represented Communities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1983, Benedict Anderson's \u003ci\u003eImagined Communities\u003c\/i\u003e revolutionised the anthropology of nationalism. Anderson argued that \"print capitalism\" fostered nations as imagined communities in a modular form that became the culture of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow, in \u003ci\u003eRepresented Communities\u003c\/i\u003e, John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan offer an extensive and devastating critique of Anderson's depictions of colonial history, his comparative method, and his political anthropology. The authors build a forceful argument around events in Fiji from World War II to the 2000 coups, showing how focus on \"imagined communities\" underestimates colonial history and obscures the struggle over legal rights and political representation in postcolonial nation-states. They demonstrate that the \"self-determining\" nation-state actually emerged with the postwar construction of the United Nations, fundamentally changing the politics of representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSophisticated and impassioned, this book will further anthropology's contribution to the understanding of contemporary nationalisms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464185987308,"sku":"9780226429908","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226429908-represented-communities.jpg?v=1775040707"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/martha-kaplan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}