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Ethnogenesis and Statelessness

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
The process of ethnogenesis (i.e. the formation of new ethnic groups) can be considered equivalent to the production of "governance goods" in situation of statelessness. The process of ethnogenesis is a response to the problem of social distance between heterogeneous groups which is a barrier to trade.
Vincent Geloso, Louis Rouanet
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Maya Ethnogenesis

Journal of Latin American Anthropology, 2004
RESUMENEran los mayas de Yucatán verdaderamente mayas? Con respeto a las identitades a las cuales pretendían y las que otros les daban, los mayas no eran mayas. Este artículo examina fuentes coloniales que demuestran que los habitantes indígenas de la península no se llamaban a si mismos “maya” ni utilizaban ningún otro término étnico para ...
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British Ethnogenesis

2020
Abstract This chapter will argue that the ethnogenesis of the Britons was a process which occurred within the Late Antique period. Whilst commentators from Gildas onwards imagined the Britons to have existed as an identifiable group from time immemorial, it is argued here that they arose out of a growing division between more and less ...
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Ethnogenesis and Cultural Geography

Journal of Cultural Geography, 2003
By working largely unaware of the huge literature in anthropology and certain other social sciences on ethnogenesis, Western cultural/historical and ethnic geographers remain aside from the mainstream in this inquiry and in fact do not address the topic as often as one might expect.
Bella Bychkova Jordan, Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov   +1 more
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Labrador metis ethnogenesis*

Ethnos, 1997
Recent claims to Aboriginal (native or indigenous) identity include new peoples who may not have had an historical consciousness as distinct peoples. This paper presents such a case from Canada, the recent ethnogenesis of the Labrador Metis. These Metis claim Inuit ancestry.
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The Ethnogenesis of Pescador Identity:

2019
Chapter 9 discusses ethnogenesis on the north coast of Peru from the perspective of bioarchaeology at the Initial Period site of Pampa Gramalote (1500–1200 cal B.C./3450–1350 cal BP) in the Moche valley in northern Peru. The authors examine the genetic relationship between fishing and contemporary, nearby populations using dental traits.
Richard C. Sutter, Gabriel Prieto
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The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis

Annual Review of Anthropology, 2014
Over more than a century, a growing body of books, articles, and dissertations has emerged that can now be recognized as part of the archaeology of ethnogenesis. Regardless of whether this work concerns people in the far reaches of antiquity or the more recent past, archaeologists are grappling with a variety of social forces, historical processes ...
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Yoruba Ethnogenesis from Within

Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2013
AbstractIt is an anthropological truism that ethnic identity is “other”-oriented, such that who wearerests on who we arenot. Within this vein, the development of Yoruba identity in the late nineteenth century is attributed to Fulani perspectives on their Oyo neighbors, Christian missionaries and the politics of conversion, as well as Yoruba descendants
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Typology and Ethnogenesis

This chapter examines how typological interpretation, derived from Puritan religious thought, has profoundly shaped American concepts of identity, migration, and ethnicity. It traces the use of biblical types such as Exodus, the Promised Land, and the figure of Christ as mediator and the subject of extreme suffering across diverse ethnic and racial ...
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