ANTB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Indigenous Peoples, Eurocentrism, Tutsi
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Ethnicity draws from distinctions between one group and another group. Case of boundary maintenance - a socially constructed boundary that separates two groups of people. Identification with and feeling part of an ethno group, as well as feeling excluded from a group that. It is a way to determine themselves between two groups with different languages, histories and so on. Lecture 8: ethnicity, autochthony & conflict doesn"t distinguish with one group and so forth. People promote ethnicity in other ways, promote group affiliation because they have a deep emotional connection to their group group. Almost by nature, they promote their group over another"s because of how close they feel to their. There"s an essence of that group, and every individual prescribed to that essence. If you apart of this ethnic group, you must act a certain way - very stereotypical images of groups. Use ethnicity means the privileges for particular types of political action ( language, religion,
