Nationalism

Short film of the philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist Ernest Gellner. Please see http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/audiovisual.html for longer film and other films

Duration : 0:3:20

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UCLA Center for the Study of Women presents Paul Campos, author of “The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health.” In this talk, he discusses efforts to make fat people thin, through weight-loss diets, drugs, and surgery. Campos sees weight as a political and social issue and notes that body size is often used as a tool of discrimination, especially against women. Organized by Prof Abigail Saguy, Department of Sociology at UCLA, this talk is part of the Gender and Body Size lecture series, which addresses the new interdisciplinary field of “fat studies.” Recent discussions of body weight have been dominated by health policy concerns over the so-called obesity epidemic. Despite a long tradition of feminist critique of fat hatred as a problem of patriarchy, there has been very little critique of the growing emphasis on the importance of slenderness for health reasons.

Duration : 0:45:1

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Lecture to second year undergraduate students at Cambridge University in 2001 by Alan Macfarlane on some aspects of the work of the sociologist, anthropologists and philosopher Ernest Gellner. For the background, downloadble version, readings etc. please see www.alanmacfarlane.com

Duration : 0:44:58

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The philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist Ernest Gellner presenting a paper at a Seminar in Cambridge in 1977. For the full seminar, with many distinguished participlants, please see www.alanmacfarlane.com

Duration : 0:18:28

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