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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22 Jul 2010
TL;DR: From Quebec to Argentina, the authors explored the identities that do not fit easily into one national or ethnic mold: Chicanos, Franco-Ontarians, Creoles, and second and third generation immigrants.
Abstract: La transculturalite constitue une nouvelle facon de concevoir les cultures, c'est-adire non plus comme des ilots distincts, mais plutot comme des reseaux interactifs de sens et de pratiques. Ces identites transculturelles qui n'entrent pas aisement dans le seul moule d'une nation ou d'une ethnie abondent particulierement dans les Ameriques, par exemple les Chicanos, les Franco-Ontariens, les Creoles et les immigrants de deuxieme et de troisieme generation. De Quebec a l'Argentine, cet ouvrage se penche sur ces identites qui se construisent au carrefour de la similitude et de la difference. Transculturality is a new way of viewing culture that sees cultures not as separate islands that are easily differentiated from one another, but as connected and interacting webs of meaning and practice. The Americas in particular offer many examples of transcultural identities that do not fit easily into one national or ethnic mold: Chicanos, Franco-Ontarians, Creoles, and second and third generation immigrants. From Quebec to Argentina, this volume explores these identities which create themselves in a space between sameness and difference.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the structures and mechanisms underlying tensions and argue for a change from current policies of tolerance that merely recognize diversity, to actively seeking a well-beingenhancing multicultural engagement.
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...It provides individuals, groups or societies with confidence needed for intercultural encounters and relates to boundary maintenance, allowing groups to gain strength from a unifying discourse (Barth, 1998 [1969])....
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present ethnographic materials from a long-term field study (2008-2013) in which officers were joined "on the beat" and in which several hundreds of talks and interviews took place.
Abstract: pology of law enforcement. It takes as its case the sometimes exclusionary dealings of law enforcers with (post)migrants. These include street encounters during patrol as well as interactions within the Dutch police organization where officers with various ethnic backgrounds come together and try to make a living. The ethnographic materials presented come from a long-term field study (2008–2013) in which officers were joined ‘on the beat’ and in which several hundreds of talks and interviews took place.
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...I was predominantly interested in the construction of ethnic boundaries (Barth 1969) between officers and interviewed small groups of rank-and-file officers (on an individual basis)...
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TL;DR: In this article, the persistence up to present day of the colonial image of an inward-looking society without equating the current interplay of states and nonstate actors to the international context of the nineteenth century or the Cold War is analyzed.
Abstract: Afghanistan is a key region in and from which scholars can reflect on the potentials and challenges of anthropology. Structured chronologically and analytically, this review analyzes the persistence up to present day of the colonial image of an inward-looking society without, however, equating the current interplay of states and nonstate actors to the international context of the nineteenth century or the Cold War. The 1960s and 1970s were a productive period for research on the country focusing on pastoral nomadism, ethnicity, state, and tribe. When the opportunity for long-term fieldwork in Afghanistan was temporary interrupted in the 1980s with the Soviet occupation, anthropologists were forced to shift focus. Many worked among Afghan refugees in Pakistan as well as on the diaspora, including on the transnational networks of migrants. The international intervention in late 2001 incited an academic scramble for Afghanistan. The article reflects on the deontological challenges of research in an environme...
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Book Chapter•
01 Jan 2002
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