ANT E105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Spanish Inquisition, People Nation, Enculturation
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Ethnicity: a sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group. One-way ethnic identity is taught through origin myths. People create and promote certain ethnic boundary markers in attempt to signify who is in the group and who is not. Groups may vanish in situations of war or genocide. Situational negotiation of identity: an individual"s self-identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location. Ethnic cleansing: efforts by representatives of one ethnic or religious group to remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area. Melting pot: a metaphor used to describe the process of immigrant assimilation into u. s dominant culture. Assimilation: the process through which minorities accept the patterns and norms of the dominant culture and cease to exist as separate groups.
