ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ethnic Group, Ethnic Nationalism, Purdah
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Overview: the logic of social classification, race, ethnicity, national identity. Ethnicity comes from ethnos meaning nation and natus meaning to be born. The logic of social classification: binary, segmentary. Classification for race: usa: white, black or african american, american indian and alaska native, asian, native hawaiian and other pacific islander, some other race. Classification for race: canada: aboriginal (inuit, metis, north american indian, arab/west asian, ex: armenian, egyptian, iranian and lebanese, ex: african, haitian, jamaican and somali, black, chinese, filipino, japanese, korean, latin american, south asian, white (caucasian, other. Indio: quecha speakers, rural, farmers, miners c. Important state education in pluralists societies: education is the most powerful means of making people think alike. Ethnicity and boundary formation: fredrik barth 1969, norwegian anthropologists studying pushtun in afghanistan, ethic groups and boundaries, ethnicity not an inventory of cultural traits, not like this ethnic group wears, eats and does this, ethnicity as boundary formation.
