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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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Territorialities of power in the Ecuadorian coast: the politics of an environmentally dispossessed group
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case study in which an environmentally dispossessed group has implemented a novel ethnic strategy based on the concepts of "ancestrality" and "peoplehood" in order to demand collective mangrove land titles, and thus, gain more control over their natural resources.
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Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that water governance takes shape in contexts of territorial pluralism centred on the interplay of divergent interests in defining, constructing and representing hydrosocial territory.
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Images of 'the Other': 'The Turk' in Greek Cypriot children's imaginations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how national identity is constructed in the classroom through the use of an 'us' versus 'them' frame of reference, a process which essentialises identity and gives rise to an eternal and primordial enemy.
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Touristic ethnicity: a brief itinerary
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-pronged empirical and theoretical argument is developed in relation to three phenomena: tourism as a form of ethnic relations; the development of touristic ethnic cultures, in which interaction with tourism becomes an integral part of the construction of ethnic identity; and the dedifferentiation of the tourist realm, such that touristic modes of visualization and experience become characteristics of the expression and consumption of ethnicity.
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The Religious Boundaries of an Inbetween People: Street Feste and the Problem of the Dark- Skinned Other in Italian Harlem, 1920-1990
TL;DR: A story about a greenhorn just off the banana boat who is walking one day down a street in New York (or Boston or Chicago or St. Louis) when he sees a black man is described in this article.