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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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Ethnicity and language crossing in post-apartheid South Africa
TL;DR: The authors examines some of the linguistic mechanisms that multilingual learners in South Africa use to construct, maintain, manage, or negotiate their social identities, with a focus on language crossing and its variants, such as refusal and passing.
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Ethnicity and Belonging: An Overview of a Study of Cuban, Haitian and Guatemalan Immigrants to Florida
TL;DR: A vision general de un estudio cualitativo interdisciplinario that explora the significados personales and expresiones publicas sobre lo que es la casa (lugar de origen), etnicidad and sentimiento de pertenencia entre los inmigrantes de Cuba, Haiti, and Guatemala to Florida, Estados Unidos, is presented in this article.
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Nationalism as a Process for Making the Desired Identity Salient: Bosnian Muslims Become Bosniaks
Words Flying on the Wind: Buriat Mongolian Children in a Chinese Bilingual School
TL;DR: This article explored the language socialization practices four Indigenous Buriat youth from the Republic of Buriatia, Russian Federation, encountered as they attended a bilingual school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China.
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"Nostalgia without memory": A case study of American converts to Eastern Orthodoxy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
TL;DR: The authors explored the ascribed social meanings and processes of conversion among contemporary American converts to Eastern Orthodoxy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using the ethnographic field methods of participant observation and interviewing at two primary fieldsites, a Greek Orthodox and Orthodox Church in America parish, examining how converts, as choice-makers using consumer-like strategies and print/electronic media to study and compare religious options, reflect and effect change in communities commonly regarded in the United States as preserving the languages and customs of various immigrant groups from Eastern, Southeastern Europe, and the Middle East.