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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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Why Did the Barbarian Cross the Rhine
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that a desire on their part to escape the Hun-generated chaos and predation remains the best overall explanation for the barbarian invasion of the Roman Empire.
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Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice
TL;DR: This article examined how the social meanings of phonetic variation in a British adolescent community are influenced by a complex relationship between ethnicity, social class, and social practice, focusing on the realisation of the happy vowel in Sheffield English, which is reported to be a lax variant [e] amongst working-class speakers but is undergoing change towards a tense variant [i] amongst middle class speakers.
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Dimensions of Taiwanese/Chinese Identity and National Identity in Taiwan A Latent Class Analysis
TL;DR: The authors explored the dimensionality of and the delicate relationship between ethnic identity and national identity by applying latent class (LC) factor analysis to 12 items of the Taiwan's Election and Democratization Study (TEDS) 2001 survey.
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Religion in Meaning Making and Boundary Work: Theoretical Explorations
Janine Dahinden,Tania Zittoun +1 more
TL;DR: This article proposes a transversal analysis and theoretical elaboration of the question of the uses of religious elements for meaning making and boundary work, and proposes a sociocultural psychological perspective to examine meaning making dynamics.
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The Harvard case of Xu Xiping: exploitation of the people, scientific advance or genetic theft?
TL;DR: The role of genomics and genetic sampling in China, the way it is related to population policies (the new eugenics), the national importance of genetic materials and the conflicts it led to between the Chinese government and Harvard University are discussed.