Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

01 Jun 1970-British Journal of Sociology-Vol. 21, Iss: 2, pp 231

About: This article is published in British Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1970-06-01. It has received 4205 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social organization & Ethnic group.

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The Nature of Moche Human Sacrifice

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Richard C Sutter¹, Rosa J. Cortez¹•Institutions (1)

Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne¹

01 Aug 2005-Current Anthropology

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used iconographic analysis, mortuary treatment, and available archaeological data to show that the Huaca de la Luna sacrificial victims were drawn not from the local Moche population but from a number of competing Moche polities.

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Abstract: Archaeologists working in northern Peru have proposed that victims of Moche sacrifice represented either local Moche warriors defeated in ritual battles or enemy soldiers captured in warfare with nonMoche or competing Moche polities. Analysis of biodistances among eight Early Intermediate Period (200 BCAD 750) North Coast mortuary samples indicates that the sacrificial victims from the Huaca de la Luna are the least similar to others and the most variable. When iconographic analysis, mortuary treatment, and the available archaeological data are considered, it appears thatcontrary to the prediction of the ritualbattle modelthe Huaca de la Luna sacrificial victims were drawn not from the local Moche population but from a number of competing Moche polities. This result has implications for the sociopolitical development of and relations among the Moche.

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Evan S. Lieberman, Prerna Singh

01 Jan 2017-World Politics

TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between counting and various forms of conflict with an original, global data set that classifies the type of enumeration used in more than one thousand census questionnaires in over 150 countries spanning more than two centuries.

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Abstract: Does the enumeration of ethnic, racial, and/or religious categories on national household censuses increase the likelihood of conflict? The authors propose a theory of intergroup relations that emphasizes the conflictual effects of institutionalizing boundaries between social identity groups. The article investigates the relationship between counting and various forms of conflict with an original, global data set that classifies the type of enumeration used in more than one thousand census questionnaires in more than 150 countries spanning more than two centuries. Through a series of cross-national statistical analyses, the authors find a robust association between enumeration of ethnic cleavages on the census and various forms of competition and conflict, including violent ethnic civil war. The plausibility of the theory is further demonstrated through case study analysis of religious conflict in India.

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Beyond the nation-state and its units of analysis: towards a new research agenda for migration studies

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Nina Glick Schiller¹•Institutions (1)

Max Planck Society¹

01 Jan 2007

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Black Ships and Fair–Flowing Aegyptus: Uncovering the Late Bronze–Early Iron Age Context of Odysseus’ Raid on Egypt

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Jeffrey P. Emanuel

07 Oct 2015

TL;DR: In a previous work as mentioned in this paper, we have discussed the relationship between Homer and Mycenaean in the context of Nautical Archaeology and Nautical Nautical Histories.

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Abstract: Classics; Homer; Archaeology; Odysseus; Sea Peoples; Naval Warfare; Nautical Archaeology; Mycenaean; Greece

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...…by our primary sources may give us reason to consider them as an ethnic groups, a name alone does not an ethnicity make – we can only truly define these groups as “ethnic” entities if we have some sense of how those people defined themselves with regard to other groups (cf. Barth, 1969, p. 11)....
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...Following the path of the Sea Persons: The women in the Medinet Habu reliefs....
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...11 Following Barth (1969), ethnicity here is defined by boundaries a group establishes vis–à–vis others, rather than by the name given to it by outsiders or the “culture” displayed by the group itself (Barth, 1969, p. 15)....
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...Organization Following this introductory chapter (Ch. 1), the present project is divided into four further chapters (2–5), including a summary and conclusion....
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