Ethnic Boundaries and Cultural Change in an Amazonian Population
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Overview This 26-month investigation examines the relationship between inter-ethnic interactions, perceptions, and the cultural content of ethnic groups. Evidence from ethnography, psychological experiments, and evolutionary models supports the intuition that inter-ethnic interactions among individuals play an important role in the changing “cultural content” of an ethnic group, i.e., the norms (beliefs about what is acceptable behavior) and the symbolic markers (dress, language, etc.) perceived to be shared by co-ethnics. However, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. This study asks the question: How do patterns of interaction among
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