Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
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...Belonging to a group comes about through an imputation and a subscription process: it is only to the extent that a person identifies him/herself or is identified by others that ethnicity is manifested by distinctive features (Barth, 1968)....
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13 Sep 2004TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a taxonomy of Mudejar communities in the Ebro region in the early thirteenth century, focusing on the relationship between the Galips, templar vassals, and the Lucera family vs. the Aljama family.
Abstract: List of figures List of maps List of tables Acknowledgements Note on the citation of sources, dates, places and names Glossary List of abbreviations Introduction Part I. Muslim Domination of the Ebro and its Demise, 700-1200: Introduction 1. Thaghr and taifa 2. Christians and Muslims: contact and conquest Part II. Muslims under Christian Rule: Introduction 3. The financial and judicial administration of Mudejar society 4. Muslims in the economy of the Christian Ebro 5. Mudejar ethnicity and Christian society 6. Muslims and Christian society Mudejarismo as a social system Part III. Individual and Community in the Christian Ebro: Introduction Case study 1: fiscal and confessional identity: the Galips, templar vassals in Zaragoza (1179-1390) Case study 2: Franquitas and factionalism in Daroca: the Lucera family vs. the Aljama (1267-1302) Case study 3: litigation and competition within the Muslim community: the Abdellas of Daroca (1280-1310) Case study 4: administrative corruption and royal complicity: Abrahim Abengentor, Caualquem of Huesca (1260-1304) Case study 5: overlapping agendas: the career of Mahomet, Alaminus of Borja (1276-1302) Case study 6: the good, the bad and the indifferent: Christian officials in the Ebro region Personal histories: the individual, within the community and beyond Conclusions: Mudejar ethnogenesis Appendix 1: currency of the thirteenth-century Ebro region Appendix 2: toponymical variants in archival documents Appendix 3: rulers of the 'Crown of Aragon', 1050-1300 Select bibliography Index.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a situated intersectional approach to the study of everyday border, illustrating the importance of capturing the differentially situated gazes of a range of social actors.
Abstract: In the introduction to this special issue, we briefly introduce everyday bordering as the theoretical framing for the papers and explore its relationship to the process of racialization. We introduce our situated intersectional approach to the study of everyday bordering, illustrating the importance of capturing the differentially situated gazes of a range of social actors. We then go on to place contextualise the importance of this framing and approach in a wider discussion of Roma in Europe before conclusing with a summary of the particular contributions of each of the papers in this special issue to these debates.
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TL;DR: This article presented a predictive theory of ethnic boundary formation, which combines a coherence-based model of identity with a rational choice model of action, and tested the theory's predictions, focusing in particular on the size of populations generated by alternative boundary criteria.
Abstract: It is increasingly accepted within the social sciences that ethnic boundaries are not fixed, but contingent and socially constructed. As a result, predicting the location of ethnic boundaries across time and space has become a crucial but unresolved issue, with some scholars arguing that the study of ethnic boundaries and predictive social science are fundamentally incompatible. This paper attempts to show otherwise, presenting perhaps the first general, predictive theory of ethnic boundary formation, one that combines a coherence-based model of identity with a rational choice model of action. It then tests the the-ory's predictions, focusing in particular on the size of populations generated by alternative boundary criteria. Analysis is performed using multiple datasets containing information about ethnic groups around the world, as well as the countries in which they reside.
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...Barth (1969); DeVos (1975); Glazer and Moynihan (1975); Young (1976); Rothschild (1981); Keyes (1981); Horowitz (1985); Yinger (1985); Kasfir (1986); Brass (1991)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that despite enormous variation in the criteria of value among these different social phenomena, in all of them shared accounting systems figure as well: obviously in the varieties of money, more subtly in the counting of rights and obligations of trust, nationalism, and citizenship, and that shifts of power to transnational or non-state institutions threaten existing patterns of citizenship.
Abstract: Publisher Summary Local monies, legal tenders, the euro, migrant remittances, trust networks, nationalism, and citizenship display some unexpected common properties Despite enormous variation in the criteria of value among these different social phenomena, in all of them shared accounting systems figure as well: obviously in the varieties of money, more subtly in the counting of rights and obligations of trust, nationalism, and citizenship Citizenship continues to bind people to particular states by means of rights and obligations, which means that shifts of power to transnational or non-state institutions threaten existing patterns of citizenship Even if whole kinship networks, formally computed, rarely qualify as trust networks, by virtue of cohabitation and procreation, some segments of kinship networks often undertake consequential collective enterprises, such as placement of children, and lend themselves to other enterprises such as trade and provision for incompetent persons
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