Social interaction among different ethnic groups has been a major focus of study in the world in recent decades. The population of Iran is composed of variety of ethnic groups (such as linguistic, religious and cultural) and for this study the people of different backgrounds are considered. This article will discuss the types of social interaction among different ethnic groups and the rol...

Abstract This paper shows how ethnic identities may become more salient due to natural resources extraction. We combine individual data on the strength of ethnic—relative national—identities with geo-localised information contours homelands, and timing location mineral exploitation in 25 African countries, from 2005 2015. Our strategy takes advantage several dimensions exposure exploitation: ti...

Scholars of ethnic politics have posited that in some societies ascriptive identities are ranked relative to each other, but the origins of ranking are poorly understood. This paper develops a theory of ranked identities, and of why the elites of subaltern groups sometimes choose to invest in improving their status within the value systems of dominant groups, rather than in creating their own. ...

This is a response to Lenshie et al. (2021) paper in African Identities ‘Ethnic groups across Nigeria – Cameroon border territories: contested autochthony and contentious ethnic identities Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria’. We are concerned that their characterization of the previous literature inaccurate discussion own data does not respond complexities they themselves have documented.

This article examines the cultural identity of Turkish Shi’is in a border province East Turkey and how their ethnic religious identities are positioned within political context Turkey. living Igdir, easternmost Turkey, may share ethnicity majority but they minority terms identity. Their is shifting contextually always under construction. In this context, theorist Stuart Hall explains as never-e...

Inquire about problems of design in our time of globalization, mainly the loosing of cities identities, of architects identities, differences and cultural heritages. Philosophy, methodology and tools of Argenia, generative software able to produce complex architectural and urban scenarios connected with the cultural identity of each context.

The article intends to analyze the first sequence of documentary “Santo Forte”, understood as a prologue piece, focusing on way Umbanda entities, well their followers, were portrayed in audiovisual narrative. was recorded 1997 at Vila Parque da Cidade community, Rio de Janeiro, and released 1999, under direction filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho. theoretical framework adopted is based Cultural History...