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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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Egypt, Libya and the Sudan
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the social, economic and political effects of the Egyptian revolution and the repeated wars between the Arab states and Israel on the region, and how these conflicts contributed to the politicisation of the population of all three countries, and brought to power, or facilitated the emergence of new social and political elements.
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Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
TL;DR: This paper examined the role of Gaelic in identity formation for young fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic, a minority language of Scotland that is currently undergoing revitalisation, and found that older speakers in the Isle of Lewis, a Gaelic heartland area in north-west Scotland, and adolescent Gaelic-speakers in Lewis learning the language in immersion schooling, in Glasgow, an urban centre where Gaelic has not traditionally been spoken as a widespread community language.
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Neural dynamics of racial categorization predicts racial bias in face recognition and altruism
Yuqing Zhou,Yuqing Zhou,Tianyu Gao,Tianyu Gao,Ting Zhang,Ting Zhang,Wenxin Li,Wenxin Li,Taoyu Wu,Taoyu Wu,Xiaochun Han,Xiaochun Han,Shihui Han,Shihui Han +13 more
TL;DR: There are distinct neural dynamics by which the brain sorts people into different racial groups as a social ground for cognition and action, and the resulting dynamic neural activity predicts racial biases in facial recognition and altruistic intention.
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Ethnic Identities under the Tourist Gaze
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the construction of Bai ethnicity and Bai identity on the tourist market in Dali, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China, focusing on how the social landscape of Dali has changed in response to the development of tourism and explore how Bai ethnicity is advocated as a product loaded with potential economic values.