Daomei, I did not ascribe this stance to you. I criticised your use of examples.
I was not saying that they fit into the tribal societies I described. I am trying to make the point that Marauder do not fit with any culture in human history whatsoever. But ironically have most in common with the ones that have actually tried to exterminate peoples, the so called civilised nations. My ethnographic examples are from North and South Americas and these are peoples who in the colonial ethnography and the popular imagination seem to fit the idea of the 'savage'. A mode of thinking that legitimises all that was done to these peoples.
Marauder have existed long enough to transform into a people, and ethnic group. An imagined community is one where people imagine they belong to a community though a shared sense of history, culture, language etc rather than simply face to face interaction. Indeed, such face to face interaction is not needed for a sense belonging to a community to exist. Benedict Anderson coined the concept to discuss modern nationalism but is has spread beyond this narrow usage. In this sense German, Scottish, Matis, Fyros and Marauders are all imagined communities. Imagined should not be read as antonym of real in this case.
Marauders in the new lands are outcasts etc from the Civs BUT they are NOT from Marauder in the Old Lands.
I was not saying that they fit into the tribal societies I described. I am trying to make the point that Marauder do not fit with any culture in human history whatsoever. But ironically have most in common with the ones that have actually tried to exterminate peoples, the so called civilised nations. My ethnographic examples are from North and South Americas and these are peoples who in the colonial ethnography and the popular imagination seem to fit the idea of the 'savage'. A mode of thinking that legitimises all that was done to these peoples.
Marauder have existed long enough to transform into a people, and ethnic group. An imagined community is one where people imagine they belong to a community though a shared sense of history, culture, language etc rather than simply face to face interaction. Indeed, such face to face interaction is not needed for a sense belonging to a community to exist. Benedict Anderson coined the concept to discuss modern nationalism but is has spread beyond this narrow usage. In this sense German, Scottish, Matis, Fyros and Marauders are all imagined communities. Imagined should not be read as antonym of real in this case.
Marauders in the new lands are outcasts etc from the Civs BUT they are NOT from Marauder in the Old Lands.
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