There certainly are still Dutch programs like these! And there's even a KZbin channel by the "NOS". But yeah, it is transferred, in large part, to the interwebz. On the other hand, there are also events you can attend at which professors are invited to speak to the public That said, I must admit I share a feeling of nostalgia with you, that a particular type of intellectualism or civilizedness has been lost to a time gone by, replaced by other things. And, I think this feeling is founded in reality, in at least some way

These interviews nowadays happens in other ways, like podcasts or on KZbin channels. Television has become way too commercial, and these kind of interviews aren't the biggest moneymakers.

I took it as a wonderful display of honest, nuanced thinking. For it does not necessarily follow that a concept must be abandoned once it has been identified as arbitrary. We all rely on a degree of arbitrariness (seeming or otherwise) to grant meaning to our lives. Nation, family, life itself -- all arbitrary, in the end.

Dutch, it’s in the Description.

uhhh there are loads of right wing parties in the world that promote total globalization as well, lorem ipsum

lay of the meth

Lorem ipsum. I agree, Marxists did pick up on the fact that Nationalism as a concept hadn't been deeply academically investigated, and took the opportunity to apply critical theory to it, thus coming up with all their usual constructivism and imagined bullcrap. Watching interviews with Ben Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm, you can feel that they know they made all this stuff up, and when faced with a question like "Which country would you be prepared to die for?" you get a sense that he would like to answer, but if he did he'd prove that he doesn't believe his own crap. Who would want to die for an 'Imagined Community'? But I know I'd be able to answer the question.

he had just been dissecting how contrived and artificial while powerful it is. Would you sacrifice your life for some abstract notion of a family constructed through bureaucracy and centralisation. Your life son, after that it s void for eternity. You do know that right?

lol is your brain ok

Dat is niet helemaal waar, in Nederland sprak de elite voornamelijk Frans (de laatste woorden van Willem van Oranje waren ook in het Frans). Het volk sprak Nederlands. Er is na Willem van Oranje veel moeite gedaan om de taal van het volk prominenter te maken.

@@Overlorddz latin you mean

Ben Anderson is a piece of shit.

please, dont call ben anderson like that. maybe he somthing doing wrong at life but he want to doing something

Suharto and it's 32 years of military Junta and cronies are the real truckload of orangutansh*t to ever happened to the the history of Indonesia and Indoensia people.. Ben Anderson dedicated his whole life for Indonesia. Merdeka Ben Anderson!, May God rest your soul. - from real Indonesian.

character keeper If the interviewer is asking slightly "clueless" questions it is because of concern of the listener. The interviewer clearly knows alot about the subject and the answers to the questions he was asking. But the listener needs help to understand if they didn't read the book or never heard of this before.

If the interviewer "clearly knows alot about the subject and the answers to the questions he was asking" it is because of the concern of the listener. Meaning the listener could be the interviewer's ugly, fat nanny. I would think if this interviewer knew what he's talking about he wouldn't be asking those stupid questions. I can see Anderson pitying the guy over his 4th grade level understanding of IC. I know you didn't mean it when you said I haven't read Anderson - I think that was desperate of you to do that - so I'm leaving that one out.

Well, it's the inevitable consequence of global capitalism.

Sandra Regina eu posso explicar umas coisas que o Anderson diz pra voce si quiser

If you read the description, you can read the Dutch introduction transcribed in English.

Anthropology Online Oh sorry, I did not notice that