Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

TL;DR: In this paper, the relevance of archaeological history is discussed, including the origins of scientific archaeology, the imperial synthesis, and the development of modern archaeology in the 20th century.

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Race as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real: Anthropological and historical perspectives on the social construction of race.

Audrey Smedley, +1 more

- 01 Jan 2005 -

American Psychologist

TL;DR: The origins of the concept of race are reviewed, placing the contemporary discussion of racial differences in an anthropological and historical context.

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Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity

Paul Brass, +5 more

- 01 Sep 2000 -

International Organization

TL;DR: This article examined the theoretical implications of the observation that ethnic identities are socially constructed for explaining ethnic violence, distinguishing between two classes of mechanisms: individuals are viewed as the agents who construct identities, and constructivist explanations for ethnic violence tend to merge with analyses that stress strategic action by both elites and mass publics.

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Critical History of the Acculturation Psychology of Assimilation, Separation, Integration, and Marginalization

Floyd W. Rudmin

- 01 Mar 2003 -

Review of General Psychology

TL;DR: The psychology of intercultural adaptation was first discussed by Plato as discussed by the authors, and many modern enculturation theories claim that ethnic minorities (including aboriginal natives, immigrants, refugees, and soj...

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Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography

David Newman, +1 more

- 01 Apr 1998 -

Progress in Human Geography

TL;DR: In the tradition of political geography, boundary analysis has focused on the international scale, since international boundaries provide perhaps the... as discussed by the authors, and state boundaries have constituted a major topic in political geography.

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