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Ethnic Boundaries (ethnic + boundary)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel: Or How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual by Aziza Khazzoom

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 1 2009
GALIT SAADA-OPHIR
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

,Going to Brazil': transnational and corporeal movements of a Canadian-Brazilian martial arts community

GLOBAL NETWORKS, Issue 2 2008
JANELLE JOSEPH
Abstract In this article I use a case study of capoeira (an Afro-Brazilian martial art/dance/game) in Canada to bring together sport and transnationality literatures. I show that understandings of transnationality can be extended through both investigating people born and raised in the North, since they play an important role in creating transnational spaces, and attending to the corporeal means that people deploy to connect to a homeland or ,travel' to a foreign country. Through adopting a particular racialized/ national style of movement, those who ,stay put' in the North can ,move' across ethnic boundaries, if not geopolitical borders. Real (international), imagined (virtual and emotional), and corporeal (embodied) ,travel' to Brazil are key experiences of the senior capoeirista (capoeira devotee). Sporting activities provide an exceptional window onto transnationality studies, given that ways of moving are fundamental to social, cultural and national identities. [source]

Ethnicity and Evolution of the Biodemographic Structure of Arbėreshe and Italian Populations of the Pollino Area, southern Italy (1820,1984)

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2007
Article first published online: 7 MAY 200
In the present study, we show how, through time, an ethnic mosaic and a changing social and economic context translated into intrapopulation differentiation and a change in genetic barriers between populations. Surname analysis was applied to a sample drawn from two centuries of marriage records in ten Arbėreshe and nine Italian villages of southern Italy to evaluate the evolution of internal differentiation and changes in genetic relationships between populations. Marital Isonymy and subdivision into subpopulations was higher in the Arbėreshe. Genetic barriers coinciding with ethnic boundaries characterized the 1800s. In the second half of the 1900s, ethnic differentiation disappeared. We hypothesize that socioeconomic changes, such as increased outmigration and regional mobility, were the forces that progressively eliminated the ethnic-related genetic differentiation in the region. This study has important implications for an understanding of the relationship between genetic evolution and the cultural milieu involving enforcement of ethnic differences. [source]

The Dictator Game, Fairness and Ethnicity in Postwar Bosnia

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, Issue 3 2007
Sam Whitt
This study considers the effects of ethnic violence on norms of fairness. Once violence is a foregone conclusion, will cooperative norms ever (re-)emerge beyond ethnic boundaries? We use an experiment that measures how fairly individuals in a postconflict setting treat their own ingroup in comparison to the outgroups,in this case, examining the behavior of 681 Muslims, Croats, and Serbs in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. To assess fairness, we use the dictator game wherein subjects decide how to allocate a sum of money between themselves and an anonymous counterpart of varying ethnicity. We find that the effects of ethnicity on decision making are captured by our experiments. Although results indicate preferential ingroup treatment, the incidence and magnitude of outgroup bias is much less than expected. We conclude that norms of fairness across ethnicity are remarkably strong in Bosnia, and we take this to be a positive sign for reconciliation after violent conflict. [source]