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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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Hungarian Roma Attitudes on Minority Rights: The Symbolic Violence of Ethnic Identification
TL;DR: Since 1989 Hungary has undergone profound political and economic changes. The political changes are referred to as "democratisation" as mentioned in this paper, a term describing a general shift from an authoritarian to a pl...
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Islam or christianity? the choices of the wawa and the kwanja of cameroon
TL;DR: In this article, Gausset et al. argue that those Wawa and Kwanja who converted to Islam and Christianity at around the time when Cameroon gained independence in the 1960s intended primarily to adopt a religious identity which was seen as modern and supportive of their new national identity.
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Different views of history: Shades of irredentism along the Laos–Cambodia border
TL;DR: The administrative boundary between Laos and Cambodia is amongst the least studied international borders in Southeast Asia as mentioned in this paper and has been the subject of some minor but sustained tensions between ethnic Lao and ethnic Khmer.
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The Social and Political Construction of Identities in the New South Africa: an Analysis of the Western Cape Province.
TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical study of established and emerging identities in the Western Cape province, and the processes whereby these are constructed, is presented, showing that social identities are being constructed around residents' local neighbourhoods and long-existing ethnic, class and racial identities.