Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
About: 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.
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19 Jul 2018TL;DR: Neumann and Wigen as mentioned in this paper provide a full account of political organisation in the Eurasian steppe from the fourth millennium BCE up until the present day, drawing on a wide range of archaeological and historical secondary sources, alongside social theory, discuss the pre-history, history and effect of what they name the steppe tradition.
Abstract: Neumann and Wigen counter Euro-centrism in the study of international relations by providing a full account of political organisation in the Eurasian steppe from the fourth millennium BCE up until the present day. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological and historical secondary sources, alongside social theory, they discuss the pre-history, history and effect of what they name the 'steppe tradition'. Writing from an International Relations perspective, the authors give a full treatment of the steppe tradition's role in early European state formation, as well as explaining how politics in states like Turkey and Russia can be understood as hybridising the steppe tradition with an increasingly dominant European tradition. They show how the steppe tradition's ideas of political leadership, legitimacy and concepts of succession politics can help us to understand the policies and behaviour of such leaders as Putin in Russia and Erdogan in Turkey.
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TL;DR: A case study of sacred landscapes in the contemporary era is presented in this article, where a particular mountain and its rise to sacredness is discussed. But the authors focus on the mountain Tromsdalstind and do not consider its relationship with the Sami culture.
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TL;DR: Social network analysis demonstrates that signaling practices changed to reflect these regional patterns resulting in a “small world” network with small degrees of separation between sites reflecting the integration of communities within and between the three confederacies.
Abstract: Pottery is a mainstay of archaeological analysis worldwide. Often, high proportions of the pottery recovered from a given site are decorated in some manner. In northern Iroquoia, late pre-contact pottery and early contact decoration commonly occur on collars—thick bands of clay that encircle a pot and extend several centimeters down from the lip. These decorations constitute signals that conveyed information about a pot’s user(s). In southern Ontario the period A.D. 1350 to 1650 witnessed substantial changes in socio-political and settlement systems that included population movement, coalescence of formerly separate communities into large villages and towns, waxing and waning of regional strife, the formation of nations, and finally the development of three confederacies that each occupied distinct, constricted areas. Social network analysis demonstrates that signaling practices changed to reflect these regional patterns. Networks become more consolidated through time ultimately resulting in a “small world” network with small degrees of separation between sites reflecting the integration of communities within and between the three confederacies.
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TL;DR: The authors discusses the types of Chinese identities in Malaysia, which have been influenced by localization, the process of becoming local, involving cultural adjustment to a local geographical and social environment as well as identifying with the locality.
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