Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

TL;DR: It is shown that these oral traditions probably originated long before the emergence of the literary record, and can be traced back to the Bronze Age, and strong correlations between the distributions of a number of folktales and phylogenetic, but not spatial, associations among populations are found.

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Being Gay and Jewish: Negotiating Intersecting Identities

Randal F. Schnoor

- 01 Mar 2006 -

Sociology of Religion

TL;DR: Based upon interviews of thirty gay Jewish men in Toronto, the authors offers a case study to empirically and theoretically explore the varied experiences of these intersecting identities for this under-studied population.

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Transcending transculturalism? Race, ethnicity and health-care

Lorraine Culley

- 01 Jun 2006 -

Nursing Inquiry

TL;DR: This paper addresses the question of how to therorise ethnicity in a way that does not entail its reification as a set of fixed cultural properties, and makes some tentative suggestions for the possibility of a critical culturalist approach to difference and healthcare practice, which must include a consideration of racisms.

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The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals

Joel Perlmann, +1 more

- 01 May 2004 -

Population

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Resettled farmers and the making of a Mississippian polity

Timothy R. Pauketat

- 01 Jan 2003 -

American Antiquity

TL;DR: A pedestrian survey and extensive excavations of 255 domestic buildings and related artifacts at 15 contemporaneous sites document a pattern of localized resettlement in which thousands of agricultural villagers moved or were displaced coeval with the founding of Cahokia as mentioned in this paper.

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