Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
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...This means that ‘the critical focus for investigation [becomes] the ethnic boundary that defines the group rather than the cultural stuff that it encloses’ (Barth 1969b: 15)....
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...…have different underlying proximate psychologies, and as has been pointed out by generations of linguists and anthropologists (e.g., Sapir, 1921; Barth, 1969; Gudykunst & TingToomey, 1990), language and race correspond to different aspects of the world, and have complex and varied relationships…...
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...If “group” means a collection of people coordinating, cooperating, or competing, then it is unlikely that accent is always or invariably going to be a better marker (Barth, 1969; Hill, 1978; Sapir, 1921)....
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...As Barth (1969) points out: “…the traditional proposition that a race = a culture = a language and that a society = a unit which rejects or discriminates against others…prevents us from understanding the phenomenon of ethnic groups and their place in human society and culture…[and] implies a…...
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