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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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Toward an Understanding of Borderland Processes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a simplified lexicon that is widely applicable across disciplinary, temporal and regional divides and lay out a model, called the "continuum of boundary dynamics" which is meant to aid researchers in characterizing various types of boundary situations.
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A Picture of Instagram is Worth More Than a Thousand Words: Workload Characterization and Application
Thiago H. Silva,Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo,Jussara M. Almeida,Juliana Salles,Antonio A. F. Loureiro +4 more
TL;DR: This work characterizes the photo sharing system Instagram, considered one of the currently most popular PSS on the Internet, and presents an application to identify regions of interest in a city based on data obtained from Instagram, which illustrates the promising potential of PSSs for the study of city dynamics.
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2 – Modeling Interregional Interaction in Prehistory
Edward Schortman,Patricia Urban +1 more
TL;DR: A review of intersocietal interaction frameworks can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss the modeling of interregional interaction in pre-history and the rise and fall of diffusion as a framework.
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Ethnic Movements and the Competition Model: Some Missing Links
Sarah Belanger,Maurice Pinard +1 more
TL;DR: The competition model of ethnic resurgence and the relevant evidence are critically examined in this paper, where the authors note the absence of direct measures of competition in the research on ethnic movements and the mixed nature of the evidence produced, and propose a partial reformulation that stresses the necessary conditions under which ethnic competition leads to ethnic conflict: (1) competition must be perceived as unfair and (2) competitive relations must be relatively free from interdependence.
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Voting with your feet: Payoff biased migration and the evolution of group beneficial behavior.
Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson +1 more
TL;DR: This model suggests that long run outcomes depend on the relative strength of migration and local adaptation and when local adaption is strong enough to preserve cultural variation among groups, cultural variants that make societies attractive always predominate, but never drive alternative variants to extinction.