ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Fredrik Barth, Ethnogenesis, Endogamy
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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. ken guest. As globalization intensifies, ethnicity has risen in prominence because it it one of the strongest sources of solidarity available to people moving across borders. Ethnicity is different from, but overlaps with, other categories: Where do ethnic groups and ethnic identities come from and how are they maintained? (i. e. ethnogenesis) Anthropologists view ethnicity as a cultural construction. Ethnic groups are often extensions of ideas about kinship. One way ethnic identity is taught and reinforced is through the telling of origin myths. Ethnic groups make share rituals, clothing styles, food, music, and dance, as well as values, norms, and beliefs. Many ethnic groups have a norm of endogamy (marriage within the group) although this is never absolute in practice.
