The article is intended to analyze and review the current state of "identity" as category in modern social science. main objective survey specify position term within epistemological space concepts "language", "culture", "personality" line with dominant ideas purpose outline research into "linguistic identity" humanities and, particularly, linguistics. An attempt made comprehend foundations a n...

Cover Page Footnote: Acknowledgments. This paper was first written for the conference “Comparative Arawakan Histories” organized by Jonathan Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero, held at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama in July 2000. I am grateful to all of the participants in that conference for their helpful comments on and generous tolerance of this marginal Aruan case. I am...

This paper presents a simple model where microfounded dynamics of cultural identity are endogenous and interact with an international trade equilibrium. This process generates a strong home bias under autarky. We then show that goods market integration causes a phenomenon of cultural divergence, whereby the distributions of cultures become more dissimilar across countries and one of the culture...