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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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The Evolution of Ethnocentric Behavior
Robert Axelrod,Ross A. Hammond +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that ethnocentric behavior can emerge from a simple evolutionary model of local competition between individuals, where interactions are treated as one-move Prisoner's Dilemmas, and the inheritance of strategies as genetic, cultural, or (most plausibly) both.
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The origins and nature of American nationalism
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the origins and nature of American nationalism and refutes the exceptionalist claim by applying recent findings in European nationalism research to the American case and reinterpreting American nationalism not as an introspective phenomenon but as a demarcation process.
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The texture of contact : European and Indian settler communities on the Iroquoian borderlands, 1720–1780
TL;DR: The Texture of Contact as discussed by the authors explores the dynamics of settler-Indians encounters and how they changed over time in the Mohawk, Susquehanna, Juniata, and Ohio valleys.
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Comparing citizen and elite belief systems in post-soviet russia and ukraine
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Reclaiming the "F" Word, or Being and Becoming Postwestern
TL;DR: In the recent Columbian quincentennary, historians of the American West find themselves in a strange position: the breakup of colonial empires, fighting over multiculturalism, and the commercial success of films like Dances with Wolves and Black Robe have kin-