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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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Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences, 1958-2015
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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Youth Mobilisation as Social Navigation. Reflections on the concept of dubriagem
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of social navigation is proposed as an analytical optic able to shed light on praxis in unstable environments, focusing on how urban youth navigate war as an event by tactically manoeuvring within the social ties and options that arise in such situations.
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Sufis on Parade: The Performance of Black, African, and Muslim Identities
TL;DR: Examining how the annual Cheikh Amadou Bamba Day parade in New York City creates a Murid cosmopolitanism, allowing them a space in which to reconcile multiple belongings is examined.
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Racialized Conflict and Policy Spillover Effects: The Role of Race in the Contemporary U.S. Welfare State1
TL;DR: This paper introduced a racialized conflict theory to explain how racial divisions structure welfare state development in the absence of de jure discrimination, and applied this theory to analyze Georgia's and Alabama's surprisingly divergent welfare reforms in the 1990s.
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Making difference: conflict over Irish identity in the New York City St. Patrick's Day parade
TL;DR: The controversy surrounding the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade controversy suggests that Irish ethnicity in the United States is still an important site of identity formation and fragmentation as discussed by the authors.