A sense of historical cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group

A story told about the funding and history of a particular group to reinforce of a particular group to reinforce a sense of common identity

ethnic boundary marker

A practice or belief, such as food, clothing, language, shared name, or religion, used to signify who is in a group and who is not.

situational negotiation of identity

An individual's self-identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location.

The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group.

Efforts by representatives of one ethnic or religious group to remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area.

A metaphor used to describe the process of immigrant assimilation into U.S. dominant culture.

The process through which minorities accept the patterns and norms of the dominant culture and cease to exist as separate groups.

A pattern of ethnic relation in which new immigrants and their children enculturate into the dominant nation culture and yet retain an ethnic culture.

An autonomous regional structure of political economic and military rule with a central government authorized to make laws and use force to maintain order and defend its territory.

A political entity located within a geographic territory with enforced borders, where the population share a sense of culture, ancestry, and destiny as a people.

Legal membership in a notion state

A term once used to describe a group of people who shared a place of origin; now used interchangeably with nation-state

The desire of an ethnic community to create and/or maintain a nation-state

The invented sense connection and shared tradition that underlines identification with a particular ethnic group or nation whose members likely will never all meet

A group of people living outside their ancestral homeland yet maintaining emotional and material ties to home.

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Anthropology

Chapter #7


ethnicity	A sense of historical cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group
origin myth	A story told about the funding and history of a particular group to reinforce of a particular group to reinforce a sense of common identity
ethnic boundary marker	A practice or belief, such as food, clothing, language, shared name, or religion, used to signify who is in a group and who is not.
situational negotiation of identity	An individual's self-identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location.
genocide	The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group.
ethnic cleansing	Efforts by representatives of one ethnic or religious group to remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area.
melting pot	A metaphor used to describe the process of immigrant assimilation into U.S. dominant culture.
assimilation	The process through which minorities accept the patterns and norms of the dominant culture and cease to exist as separate groups.
multiculturalism	A pattern of ethnic relation in which new immigrants and their children enculturate into the dominant nation culture and yet retain an ethnic culture.
state	An autonomous regional structure of political economic and military rule with a central government authorized to make laws and use force to maintain order and defend its territory.
nation-state	A political entity located within a geographic territory with enforced borders, where the population share a sense of culture, ancestry, and destiny as a people.
citizenship	Legal membership in a notion state
nation	A term once used to describe a group of people who shared a place of origin; now used interchangeably with nation-state
nationism	The desire of an ethnic community to create and/or maintain a nation-state
imagined community	The invented sense connection and shared tradition that underlines identification with a particular ethnic group or nation whose members likely will never all meet
diaspora	A group of people living outside their ancestral homeland yet maintaining emotional and material ties to home.

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