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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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Rethinking numismatics. The archaeology of coins
Fleur Kemmers,Nanouschka Myrberg +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that coins, as part of material culture, need to be examined within the theoretical framework of historical archaeology and material culture studies, through several case studies, demonstrate how coins, through their integration of text, image and existence as material objects, offer profound insights not only into matters of economy and the big history of issuers and state organization but also into'small histories', cultural values and the agency of humans and objects.
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India, Consociational Theory, and Ethnic Violence
TL;DR: This article used evidence from India to reassess the value of consociational power sharing as a method of reducing ethnic violence and present evidence to disprove Arend Lijphart's recent claim that India was, under Jawaharlal Nehru, a de facto Consociational state and explained the relatively low level of ethnic violence during these years.
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Toward a Dynamic Theory of Action at the Micro Level of Genocide: Killing, Desistance, and Saving in 1994 Rwanda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of behavioral boundary crossing to examine when and how Hutu in 1994 Rwanda aligned with the killing behaviors expected of them and when they did not, and reveal that transactional, relational, social-psychological, and cognitive mechanisms informed individuals' behaviors during the genocide.
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Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders
Niko Besnier,Kalissa Alexeyeff +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the ways in which non-normative gendering and sexuality in one such region, the Pacific Islands, are implicated in a wide range of socio-cultural dynamics that are at once local and global, historical, and contemporary.