“The cornerstone is laid”: Italian American Memorial Building in New York City and Immigrants’ Right to the City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Bénédicte Deschamps

“…This paper will analyze how, at the end of the nineteenth century, Italian Americans used memorial building to get a greater exposure as an ethnic group, transcend the boundaries of the Little Italies, question the place they had been assigned in American society and history, and redefine their role as political actors of the city.…”
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SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND COMMUNITY COHESION IN XO-DANG EPIC by Lê Ngọc Bính

“…This article will highlight the social organization characteristics and solid community cohesion reflected in the epics of this ethnic group.…”
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Ein Leben wie in den Alpen? Tiroler Siedler und Siedlerinnen im Dschungel von Peru by Karin Zbinden Gysin

“…The paper shows how an ethnic group in Pozuzo, an ancient colony, composed of Tyrolean and German settlers in the Peruvian jungle, re-create an alpine way of life. …”
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Early Diabetic Nephropathy and Retinopathy in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Attending Sudan Childhood Diabetes Centre by Hana Ahmed, Tayseer Elshaikh, Mohamed Abdullah

“…Likewise, high blood pressure (OR 6.89, CI 1.17-40.52, p=0.03), but not age, duration, ethnic group, BMI, HbA1c, and presence of retinopathy, was a predictor for nephropathy. …”
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Foucault in Sulawesi: Challenging the Roots of Ethnic Discourse in South Sulawesi by Muh Adnan Malewa

“…The conflict between the Bugis and Makassar ethnic groups in South Sulawesi can be described as a silent conflict that could become the catalyst for the birth of a bigger war. …”
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Des lémuriens et des hommes : mythes, représentations et pratiques à Madagascar by Claire Harpet

“…Depending on the species and the ethnic group involved, the representations of lemurs differ throughout the territory: founder ancestors, benefactors, taboo, sacred, feared or evil omen, lemurs occupy many status in the heart of Madagascan bestiary.  …”
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Le musée Konso au cœur de l'arène : quand les courtiers en développement (re)dessinent les contours du champ politique éthiopien by Chloé Josse-Durand

“…The role of heritage policies and specific actors of the development field in legitimating the ideology of the Developmental State is questionned in relation to the Konso Museum, the first Ethiopian single-Museum dedicated to an ethnic group of the Southern Ethiopia. This case-study underlines the multiple use of an international cooperation project in showcasing the liberalization of the Regime.…”
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Les Oromo à la conquête du trône du roi des rois (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) by Dimitri Toubkis

“…Thus the Oromo were not at all considered as an ethnic group but rather as a ruling group. As such they took part in the political game of the Ethiopian Kingdom. …”
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Etnogeneze Slovanů: staré a nové otázky a spory by Michal Téra

“…“The Vistula-Odra theory” looks for the original homeland of the Slavs in the territory of today’s Poland, and the roots of the Slavic ethnic group in the Lusatian and Przeworsk cultures. …”
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(Re)devenir Hui : l’ethnicisation d’une municipalité autonome à Baiqi (Fujian) by Pascale Bugnon

“…By observing the worship practices of this lineage and the interethnic interactions with the Hui from the northwest, it is possible to understand the categorical plasticity of this ethnic group, made up of reappropriation and controversies.…”
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Les jardins flottants du lac Inlé (Birmanie), ou la construction d’un paysage agricole et touristique original by Martin Michalon

“…Inle Lake, in the hills of East Burma, presents the highly characteristic landscape of floating gardens which were created during the 20th century by the local ethnic group of the Intha. The Intha have succeeded in establishing a very intensive agricultural system with strong links with the rest of the country and the world. …”
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La organización social de los mazahuas del Estado de México

“…It refers to the social links established between the nuclear family, the extended family through the paternal line and the traditional civic religious hierarchies that form one kind of social organization peculiar to the Mazahua ethnic group. This group posits their cosmological bases on a cultural matrix dating back to pre columbian and colonial times. …”
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Tourism, gender and development. An ethnic case in Morocco by BERLANGA ADELL, María Jesús

“…This article is based on the author’s Ph.D. research on the relationship between tourism and the development it generates in the Berber ethnic group in Aït Haddidou (living in High Atlas mountains of Morocco). …”
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Ciudadanos de la comunidad. Appropriation de la bureaucratie et expérience de la « communauté » chez les Matsigenka (Amazonie péruvienne) by Raphaël Colliaux

“…This article examines how some members of the Matsigenka ethnic group, an Arawak population from the south-east of the Peruvian Amazon, take ownership of and relate to the administrative unit in which they are now grouped together: the comunidad nativa (“indigenous community”). …”
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Le Yémen au xviie siècle : territoire et identités by Tomislav Klarić

“…Generally, for the learned elite of the time, belonging to an ethnic group or a land was only of minor importance while they attached great importance to religious affiliations. …”
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Landscape staging, representations, and landscape thinking in three touristified Shui villages in southern Guizhou (China) by Evelyne Gauche

“…This contribution questions landscape representations amongst the Shui who live in Guizhou province (south China). This ethnic group, which has a strong specific cultural component, has seen its daily landscapes transformed by the implementation of tourist activities. …”
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L’iconographie de l’Indien dans le cinéma américain : de la manipulation de l’image à sa reconquête by Anne Garrait-Bourrier

“…The Native American ethnic group has always been used and abused, not to say manipulated, by the medium of cinema. …”
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О категоризации понятия „земля” в семантико-культуроло- гическом аспекте (на материале русских и польских фразеологизмов с лексическим компонентом „земля”/„ziemia”)... by Andrzej Sitarski

“…The meaning of linguistic signs itself conveys fundamental information about the picture of life and mentality that is typical of a given linguistic, cultural and ethnic group. Taking into consideration a cultural and semantic paradigm when analyzing Russian and Polish idioms with the lexical component земля/ziemia, the author draws a conclusion that the interpretation of the concept of land in the studied idioms is deeply anthropocentric. …”
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Demographic processes and ethnic residential segregation by Itzhak Omer

“…This paper examines the involvement of demographic processes in the residential segregation of ethnic groups in an urban area. For this purpose, a two-part methodology has been employed. …”
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El papel de las mujeres amatlecas en la conservación biocultural dinámica del maíz nativo en Amatlán de Quetzalcóatl, Tepoztlán, Mor by Erica Hagman Aguilar, Montserrat Gispert Cruells

“…The inhabitants of this community are nahuas, an ethnic group that is in resistance facing the loss of their traditions, culture and lineage. …”
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