Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
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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TL;DR: In this paper, Jones and Fowler show how different organizations in the post-devolution period have erected internal borders within Wales, which reflect Welsh linguistic geographies and differing constructions of the true extent of the Wales linguistic nation.
Abstract: Jones R and Fowler C (2007) Where is Wales? Narrating the territories and borders of the Welsh linguistic nation, Regional Studies 41, 89–101 The paper shows how different organizations in the post-devolution period have erected internal borders within Wales, which reflect Welsh linguistic geographies and differing constructions of the ‘true’ extent of the Wales linguistic nation Key to this debate has been the formation of the pressure group Cymuned Cymuned's formation has led to numerous political and territorial tensions with the discourses promoted by established linguistic and political movements within Wales Theoretically, the paper illustrates the importance of viewing borders and territories as spatial entities that are narrated in character Empirically, it sheds light on the complexity of borders in post-devolution Wales Jones R et Fowler C (2007) Le pays de Galles, ou se trouve-t-il? Raconter les territoires et les frontieres de la nation linguistique galloise, Regional Studies 41, 89–
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors conduct an extensive literature review of the academic and non-academic literature to uncover the documented and undocumented history of Project Management Office (PMO) and its practices and see how PMO have developed to current times, how PMOs develop their ideas, how useful PMOs are, and what associated activities they partake in.
Abstract: Purpose – The Project Management Office (PMO) phenomenon is a dynamic and regularly evolving feature of the project landscape. The functions and practices expected of the PMO differ as widely as the industries and organisations, which host them. By uncovering the documented and undocumented history of the PMO and its practices the authors see how PMOs have developed to current times, how PMOs develop their ideas, how useful PMOs are, and what associated activities they partake in. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the authors conduct an extensive literature review of the academic and non-academic literature. The first phase involved searching academic journals and published theses. The second, deep searches with Google Scholar and Books using a variety of parameters to capture the changing nomenclature of the PMO over many years. These searches discovered lost academic literature within university libraries, examples of very early essays on the project of...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the politicization of land in a local setting in Kenya and suggest that even when property rights to land are generally accepted, they are also backed up by other claims, such as various histories of belonging.
Abstract: This thesis aims to explore the politicization of land in a local setting in Kenya. The purpose is to study how access to land is justified through histories about relational property and belonging. The notion of deep politics is used in order to suggest that these histories of property and belonging not only transform the meanings of land but also the meanings of politics.The empirical chapters describe how the ordeals of the high politics of the state—such as the creation of settlement schemes, the provision of landed resources, or the alteration of constituency boundaries—have given rise to local histories about how property and belonging are constituted. The findings of the thesis build on extensive fieldwork. The main empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with 129 persons, undertaken primarily in Molo. The interviews are complemented with ethnographic observations and archival sources.In policy and theory alike, land is usually treated as a purely economic resource, subject to property rights regulations of a technical, universal and decontextualized nature. Such assumptions have underwritten many large-scale land privatization reforms in the Global South. In contrast to such assumptions, this dissertation contributes to the literature on access to land in Africa by suggesting that even when property rights to land are generally accepted, they are also backed up by other claims, such as various histories of belonging. The idea that property rights, decades after titling-reforms, are both accepted and complemented with other notions of what constitutes legitimate access to land is an original finding of the thesis. This adds further complexity to the notion of property as inherently relational and potentially eligible for politicization. Additional light is hereby cast on why conflicts over land might not be solved but instead reinforced by land reforms. (Less)
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TL;DR: In this article, the orientations of Gypsy children toward play and the way in which play operates to affirm a separate identity and enforce boundaries have been explored in a three-and-a-half-year ethnographic study of gypsy life in England.
Abstract: Drawing on data from a three-and-a-half-year ethnographic study of Gypsy life in England, this article explores the orientations of Gypsy children toward play and the way in which play operates to affirm a separate identity and enforce boundaries. The apparently uncontrolled, and at times destructive, behavior of Gypsy children in a social/play context has been perceived by some observers as a barrier to educational progress. To illustrate and explore some of these themes, a number of vignettes are provided, through which patterns of play behavior are considered in different contexts, structured and unstructured, in home and school settings. Throughout the discussion, there is a search for sociocultural interpretations of play patterns that appear to differ from norms of the mainstream group, and an attempt is made to consider ways in which such patterns might fill a vacuum created by the erosion of traditional identity markers.
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...…cultural features of greatest import are boundary connected: “the diacritica by which membership is signalled and the cultural standards that actors themselves use to evaluate and judge the actions of ethnic co-members, implying that they see themselves as playing the same game” (Barth 1998, 6)....
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...In the view of Barth (1998), where persons of different culture interact, one would expect differences to be reduced since interaction both requires and generates a congruence of codes and values: “thus the persistence of ethnic groups in contact implies not only criteria and signals for…...
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...For Barth (1998), in the determination of ethnic identity, the cultural features of greatest import are boundary connected: “the diacritica by which membership is signalled and the cultural standards that actors themselves use to evaluate and judge the actions of ethnic co-members, implying that…...
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...For Barth (1998, 15), the critical focus of investigation is “the ethnic boundary that defines the group, not the cultural stuff that it encloses.”...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on families in which an interracially-married American Indian lives with a spouse and child and was included in the Census 2000 5% Public Use Microdata Sample.
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