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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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Introduction: In the Event—toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for a deepening of the methodological significance of events and situations in anthropological ethnographic practice by taking the event as central to anthropological analysis rather than the concept of society, in relation to which the event or the event-as-case is commonly engaged, either to substantialize the abstract (society or to provide a means to grasp the foundational or general organizational principles of society.
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Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, 1965 to 1990
TL;DR: This paper provided insight on how broad processes, such as migration trends or political shifts, precede the establishment of new categories, but did not detail the evolution of the categories and their evolution over time.
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The measurement of racial and ethnic identity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine some conceptual and methodological problems associated with the measurement of racial and ethnic identity, and argue for a classification system based on self identification, and review some current self-identity measures.
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Elements of ancient Jewish nationalism
TL;DR: Goodblatt as discussed by the authors argues that concepts of nationalism compatible with contemporary social scientific theories can be documented in the ancient sources from the Mediterranean Rim by the middle of the last millennium BCE.
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The Religious Content of Ethnic Identities
TL;DR: This paper argued that in many contexts there is a two-way relationship between religion and ethnicity, rather than religion simply playing a supporting role to the ethnic centrepiece, and that identity conflicts and other social struggles may stimulate the return of the religious, once reactivated, the religious dimensions of identity may take on a logic of their own.