Journal ArticleDOI
Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
About:
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The evolution of intergroup tolerance in nonhuman primates and humans.
TL;DR: It is explored how the human foraging ecology, especially large spatial and temporal fluctuations in resource availability, may have selected for a greater reliance on tolerant between‐community relationships—relationships reinforced by status acquisition and cultural institutions.
Journal Article
The Ninjas, the X-Men, and the Ladies: Playing with Power and Identity in an Urban Primary School.
TL;DR: In this paper, an analytic narrative about children's use of stories to reveal and transform images of power and of gender in the local culture of an Urban second-grade classroom is presented.
Journal ArticleDOI
Living Within and Beyond Johannesburg: Exclusion, Religion, and Emerging Forms of Being
TL;DR: The authors explored forms of exclusion, solidarity, and mutual recognition taking shape in Johannesburg among the city's new arrivals and long-term residents, highlighting three aspects of migrant life in central Johannesburg that situate affiliations with religion, kin and space.
Book
Challenging Climate Change: Competition and Cooperation Among Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in Northern Mesopotamia (c. 3000-1600 BC)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied how climate affected the social relations between neighbouring communities of occasionally differing nature, arguing that developments in these relations will fall within a continuum between competition on one end and cooperation on the other.
Journal ArticleDOI
Catalogue of Acculturation Constructs: Descriptions of 126 Taxonomies, 1918-2003
TL;DR: More than 100 different taxonomies of acculturation have been published, most of them cited and summarized here as mentioned in this paper, most of which focus on the processes by which individuals, families, communities, and societies react to inter-cultural contact.