ANT E101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Joseph Boyden, Indian Register, The Strongest
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Incorrect behaviour/signals/memberships both within and outside the ethnic group. Joseph famous canadian author with claims to indigenous ancestry, actually showed he was a white guy, has relationships with particular indigenous communities. Josiah wilson is black but was adopted and his parents are status indian, he is a member of the indigenous, wasn"t allowed to play in a first nations basketball tournament. Dna and ancestry : individual vs. group assessments. Rise in americans claiming that they are indigenous. The strongest markers for the ethnic identity in maya is dress and the language you speak. Mans getting married, his aunt is ladino because she moved, Nature of the boundary comes down to religion and how religion works into your name. Son is going to move to the big town to study. Name was bose and the changed to bakar. Just the name change ideally signals something else. His sons name didn"t change with that.