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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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Consensus, Clines, and Edges in Celtic Cultures
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Defying the law, negotiating changeThe Futanke’s opposition to the national ban on FGM in Senegal
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the politics of the preservation and abandonment of female circumcision in Fouta Toro, Senegal, and examine how the female body is located as a site of morality, key to the reproduction of cultural identities.
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The construction of ethnic differences in work incapacity risks: Analysing ordering practices of physicians in the Netherlands.
TL;DR: The analysis explores whether and how the work of Dutch physicians contributes to the appearance of a category of 'problematic migrant patients' and presents how physicians, in using instruments to distinguish plausible from implausible claims for sick leave, impose order upon reality.
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Excising culture history from contemporary archaeology
Gary M. Feinman,Jill E. Neitzel +1 more
TL;DR: The long-standing role of this approach to situate archaeological remains in space and time is far outweighed by the negative impacts of its underlying assumptions about the correspondence of biological and cultural groups, intragroup uniformity, discrete spatial boundaries, primordialism, and sequential change as mentioned in this paper.
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Justice or respect? A comparative perspective on politics in Cyprus
TL;DR: The authors argued that the anonymity of modern politics may in fact undermine cooperative politics in small-scale societies, and they took the case of Cyprus to show that in this divided island democracy has been imagined as a freedom defined ethnically - as freedom for a particular group.