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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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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.read more
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Bridging cultures: American Indian students at the Northfield Mount Hermon School
TL;DR: This study begins the exploration into the under-researched area of private boarding schools as an alternative to the federally supported system and personalizes the experiences of a few young men and women who attended Moody's schools.
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Borderland memories : the remaking of the Russian-Estonian frontier
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how people living in the borderland position themselves in the context of shifting narrative and structural frameworks and how they re-evaluate the relations to the other side and reconsider their memories of the shared past.
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Comparative Politics: CULTURE IN COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ANALYSIS
TL;DR: The authors argues that culture is important to the study of politics because it provides a framework for organizing people's daily worlds, locating the self and others in them, making sense of the actions and interpreting the motives of others, grounding an analysis of interests, linking identities to political action, and predisposing people and groups toward some actions and away from others.
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Transnational Migrants and Transnational Spirits: An African Religion in Lisbon
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on how religion and ritual traditions from their home country are manipulated by people from Guinea-Bissau in order to recreate their identity in the urban world of Lisbon.