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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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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.read more
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Race Mixture: Boundary Crossing in Comparative Perspective
TL;DR: The authors examine a large, interdisciplinary, and somewhat scattered literature, all of which fall under the umbrella term race mixture and highlight important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related, but separate, social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multi-racial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies.
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Interregional Interaction in Prehistory: The Need for a New Perspective
TL;DR: The use of social identity focuses attention directly on intersocietal interactions by encouraging us to ask such questions as who is interacting with whom, under what conditions, and what are the effects of the contact on local social change.
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Medicinal perceptions of vegetables traditionally consumed by South-Asian migrants living in Bradford, Northern England
TL;DR: An ethnobiological survey of the vegetables traditionally consumed among the Indian and Pakistani communities of Bradford found that a few of these vegetables were perceived to have remarkable medicinal value particularly against diabetes.
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Travelling to the ancestral homelands: the aspirations and experiences of a UK Caribbean community.
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic study of the Caribbean community of Moss Side, Manchester (UK) was conducted to reveal, interpret and analyse the personal meanings which members of the community attach to visiting the ancestral homeland in the Caribbean.
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The variable ties that bind: Content and circumstance in ethnic processes
TL;DR: This paper proposed a typology of group attachments, suggesting that the content of collective identity varies continuously (low to high) along three dimensions: shared interests, shared institutions, shared culture.