Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference

01 Jun 1970-British Journal of Sociology-Vol. 21, Iss: 2, pp 231

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.

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The dynamic local: delocalisation and (re-)localisation in the search for peacebuilding identity

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Stefanie Kappler¹•Institutions (1)

Liverpool Hope University¹

08 Jun 2015-Third World Quarterly

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the positionality of local identity is contingent on the everchanging social context and political economy of peacebuilding, and they identify the ways in which peacebuilding agency facilitates the creation of a particular set of identities (identification).

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Abstract: This article challenges the notion of the ‘local’ as a static identity or set position and argues for a processual understanding of localisation, in which constant processes of delocalisation and (re-)localisation serve as tools by which peacebuilding actors position themselves in the political economy and the social landscape of peacebuilding. Peacebuilding agency and -identity are viewed as situated in time and space and subject to constant transformation. Using the cases of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Cyprus, I argue that the positionality of local identity is contingent on the ever-changing social context and political economy of peacebuilding. By viewing processes of (re-)localisation and delocalisation as markers of agency, we can overcome the binary between local and international and investigate more subtle forms of agency in a fluid peacebuilding environment. The article identifies the ways in which peacebuilding agency facilitates the creation of a particular set of identities (identification), befor...

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Immigrant Associations, Integration and Identity: Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European Communities in Portugal

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João Sardinha

03 Dec 2009

TL;DR: Sardinha as mentioned in this paper analyse integratieprocessen en identiteitspatronen van de Angolese, Braziliaanse and Oost-Europese gemeenschappen in Portugal, gezien vanuit deze bevolkingsgroepen.

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Abstract: Joao Sardinha analyseert de integratieprocessen en identiteitspatronen van de Angolese, Braziliaanse en Oost-Europese gemeenschappen in Portugal, gezien vanuit deze bevolkingsgroepen Door gebruik te maken van interviews en etnografisch onderzoek in Portugal komt dit onderzoek tot een typologie van deze drie groepen Hierna volgt een analyse van het omgaan met de integratie- en identiteitsproblematiek in Portugal Ten slotte wordt er een overzicht gegeven van acht verschillende Portugese sociale en gemeenschapsdiensten en -instellingen

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...A number of theoretical models (Barth 1969; Marger and Obermiller 1987; Yinger 1994; Hutchinson and Smith 1996) have also been constructed with the aim of explaining the processes that lead to ethnic group formation....
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Pensando en Cynthia y su Hermana: Educational Implications of United States-Mexico Transnationalism for Children

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Edmund T. Hamann, Víctor Zúñiga, Juan Sánchez García

01 Oct 2006-Journal of Latinos and Education

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use three brief educational biographies of students in Mexico who have previously attended public school in the United States to introduce this literature review on United States-Mexico transnational students and highlight some of the dynamics faced by students who need to negotiate two educational systems (the United States and Mexico) and who fit neither a classic United States immigrant typology nor the typical premises around which schooling in Mexico is organized.

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Abstract: We use 3 brief educational biographies of students in Mexico who have previously attended public school in the United States to introduce this literature review on United States–Mexico transnational students. This article is also the first of several planned articles stemming from a currently ongoing, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia-supported research study. As such, the purpose here is to highlight some of the dynamics faced by students who need to negotiate 2 educational systems (the United States and Mexico) and who fit neither a classic United States immigrant typology nor the typical premises around which schooling in Mexico is organized.

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...…Schneider, and Blanc (1992) refer to schools as “mediating institutions” at which macrodynamics like transnational migration, economic stratification, and group boundary-marking processes (Barth, 1969) are enacted, contested, and endowed with various meanings at the individual and community levels....
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Material Identities: Fixing Ethnicity in the Irish Borderlands

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Hastings Donnan¹•Institutions (1)

Queen's University Belfast¹

30 Mar 2005-Identities-global Studies in Culture and Power

TL;DR: The authors explores the problem of fixing ethnicity in a politically violent national context, among a population generally overlooked in the anthropological literature, Northern Ireland's border protestants focusing on their narratives of violecne and intimidation, through a reading of the Irish border landscape that stresses the atrocities carried out there in the recent Troubles Place (locating fields, lanes or buildings) linked to atrocities.

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Abstract: The article explores the problem of fixing ethnicity in a politically violent national context, among a population generally overlooked in the anthropological literature, Northern Ireland's border protestants Focusing on their narratives of violecne and intimidation the articles details how protestants articulte their identity through a reading of the Irish border landscape that stresses the atrocities carried out there in the recent Troubles Place (locating fields, lanes or buildings) linked to atrocities make the border landscape come alive and reveal a passage from private to public memory

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Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences, 1958-2015

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Rosanna Jane Dent

01 Jan 2017

TL;DR: Lindee et al. as mentioned in this paper present a case study of the Xavante, one of the most intensely studied groups in Central Brazil, tracing the evolution of relationships between researchers and research subjects.

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Abstract: This dissertation is a history of how Indigenous people and scholars from the natural and social sciences have engaged one another since the 1950s in Brazil. Through a case study of the Xavante, one of the most intensely studied groups in Central Brazil, it traces the evolution of relationships between researchers and research subjects. Xavante communities began establishing contact with Brazilian national society in the mid-1940s in the wake of settler colonial expansionism. This high-profile process of contact drew interest from researchers, with the first long-term academic ethnographer arriving in 1958. Scholars from across the human sciences followed, particularly from the fields of anthropology, human genetics, and public health. During subsequent decades, the Xavante were constructed as a population, characterized, and circulated internationally in the form of data, biological samples, and publications. In this sense, this story provides a thread to follow the development of twentieth-century approaches to the characterization of human cultural and biological diversity. It is a history of the building of national research institutions in Brazil and a transnational account of knowledge production during the Cold War and after its end. However, by combining the national and transnational with attention to the intimate experience of research, this project traces the history of creation and circulation of academic scholarship back to its origin in the field. As an in-depth examination of the iterative fieldwork that underlay these large-scale processes, this study is locally grounded in the Xavante villages and the interpersonal interactions and labor that form the basis for knowledge production. It shows how Indigenous people have engaged in scientific knowledge making for their own social, economic, and political ends, and have, in the process, shaped the scholars and disciplines that sought to characterize them. It is a history of how researchers and subjects made and remade themselves through the human entanglement of research. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group History and Sociology of Science First Advisor M. Susan Lindee

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...See these two introductory essays, and the pieces they introduce: Paul White, “Introduction: The Emotional Economy of Science,” Isis 100, no. 4 (2009): 792–97; Otniel E....
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...See: Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, “El concepto de indio en América: Una categoría de la situación colonial,” Anales de Antropología 9 (1972), 105–124; Fredrik Barth, “Introduction,” in Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference, ed....
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...1177/1463499614528925; Mark Goodale, “Introduction to ‘Anthropology and Human Rights in a New Key,’” American Anthropologist 108 (2006): 7. doi:10.1525/aa.2006.108.1.1; Dorothy L. Hodgson, “Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on the Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa and the Americas,” American Anthropologist 104 (2002):1044, doi:10.1525/aa.2002.104.4.1037; Shannon Speed, “At the Crossroads of Human Rights and Anthropology: Toward a Critically Engaged Activist Research,” American Anthropologist 108 (2006): 75, doi:10....
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...See these two introductory essays, and the pieces they introduce: Paul White, “Introduction: The Emotional Economy of Science,” Isis 100, no. 4 (2009): 792–97; Otniel E. Dror, Bettina Hitzer, Anja Laukötter, and Pilar LeónSanz, “An Introduction to History of Science and the Emotions,” Osiris 31, no. 1 (2016): 1–18....
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...In Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference, edited by Fredrik Barth, 2nd ed., 9–38....
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