Values at work: a case of labourers in agribusiness (Jordan) by Mauro Van Aken

“…A special focus on marginal communities helps in highlighting the hierarchy that has set up in the valley and the changing meanings of wage relations enmeshed in ethnic and class definitions.…”
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Liminalities and Displacements: The Rites of Passage to Self-Identification in Chicano Writings by Sophia Emmanouilidou

“…Rivera and Villanueva venture bold explorations of the self-regulatory rites to ethnic identity, and provide the readers with stunning insights into the liminal aspects of identity, as realized in the contexts of discrimination and social oppression, and en route to an esoteric understanding of life.…”
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A Miss Kayapó: ritual, espetáculo e beleza by André Demarchi

“…Held in the city of São Félix do Xingu, in the State of Pará (Brazil), before a large number of indigenous and non-indigenous people, the Beauty Contest is an important ritual to understand the inter-ethnic relations between the contemporary Mebêngôkre and the other Brazilian inhabitants of the region. …”
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From Friends to Enemies: Negotiating nationalism, tribal identities, and kinship in the fratricidal war of the Malian Tuareg by Georg Klute

“…Friendship ties which had cut across interethnic and intraethnic boundaries were replaced by ethnic and even tribal identities during the fights. …”
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Los nahuas de Tzintzuntzan-Huitzitzilan, Michoacán: historia, mito y legitimación de un señorío prehispánico by Hans Roskamp

“…Modern historiography on 15th and early 16th century Michoacán emphasizes the political-economical success of the Tarascans and their uacúsecha lineage but pays relatively little attention to other ethnic groups that lived in the region. This article deals with the nature and strength of the historical traditions of the Nahuas in Michoacán, paying special attention to the case of Tzintzuntzan-Huitzitzilan, a place which at the time of the Spanish conquest was the capital of the uacúsecha señorío. …”
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De los candires a Kandire. La invención de un mito chiriguano by Isabelle Combès

“…The assimilation of « Kandire » to a « land without evil », or at least its inclusion in a religious complex of representations, can only be attested among the Itatin branch of the Chiriguano and not among the ethnic groups that gave birth to the current Bolivian Chiriguano. …”
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Iwolefu Funeral Insurance and the Socioeconomics of Burial Ceremony in Ikorodu area of Lagos State by Faruq Idowu Boge

“…The Ikorodu (Remo) sub-ethnic Yoruba group has a traditional form of funeral insurance that makes funeral arrangements and expenses a communal responsibility. …”
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Queering the City: Understanding Gravitational Forces by Petra L. Doan

“…Because these forces are unique to each LGBTQ space, the analytic strategy provides for greater generalizability across different sizes of cities, across various cultural and ethnic areas, and a wider array of geographies.…”
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Indigenous autonomous zones, original nations and the local political system. The case of the Kirkyawi ayllu (Bolivia) by Nelson Antequera

“…That means that it’s necessary to go beyond the “recognition” ofthe ethnic and cultural diversity to the construction of a political and administrative system that opens thepossibility of the construction of a real indigenous autonomy; that’s to say, to determine the indigenousnations’ own political system, authorities system, the instances of participation and decision making andtheir own legislative practices; in a word, the possibility of self determination. …”
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Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Premised on the fundamental assumption that Yorùbá philosophy constitutes a fundamental site of scholarship within which the task of understanding and reinventing the Nigerian state and societies can be achieved, the Introduction weaves this assumption into the analysis of the fourteen essays that explores Nigeria’s postcolonial realities ranging from overpopulation, public (im)morality, ethnic conflict, injustice, and democratic deficit to environmental degradation, disability, depersonalization, youth culture, and a glaring disconnection between educational theory and practice. …”
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De la revendication kabyle à la revendication amazighe : d’une contestation locale à une revendication globale by Nassim Amrouche

“…By creating and mobilizing historical references such as appealing to ethnic identity and sense of Tamazgha, these local disputes have garnered support and acquired a transnational dimension. …”
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La société multiculturelle selon Jürgen Habermas (I) by Denis Goeldel

“…This paper analyzes Jürgen Habermas’ conception of multiculturalism in the early 1990s, following the migratory movements caused by the break-up of the Soviet bloc and Yugoslavia, and the emergence of an ethnic neo-nationalism in Reunited Germany. In Republican Integration (1998), Habermas develops the idea of “integrating the other in his otherness” and “with equal rights”. …”
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Guerre sainte dans le Cône sud latino-américain : pentecôtistes versus umbandistes by Alejandro Frigerio, Ari Pedro Oro

“…Since this historical narrative assigns a specific place to the different ethnic and religious minorities within the nation, it constitutes a cultural resource that may be mobilized to vindicate a group’s rights or to deny them to its opponents.…”
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Votian Village Feasts in the Context of Russian Orthodoxy by Ergo-Hart Västrik

“…This phenomenon of celebrating collectively certain days of church calendar, which included ritual activities in village chapels or other local sanctuaries, common meals and heavy drinking as well singing and dancing in the course of 3–4 days, was a part of common Russian Orthodox tradition shared by several ethnic groups throughout North-West Russia in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Honneth e o mercado brasileiro de consumo como instituição de reconhecimento by Carlos Freitas

“…We highlight the recent visibility and affirmation of sexual and ethnic diversity in the advertising industry of the Brazilian consumer market. …”
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Les autochtones invisibles ou comment l’Argentine s’est « blanchie » by Sabine Kradolfer

“…Thus, in a context where « the Argentinean national identity » had to present an ethnic, linguistic and religious unity, the idea emerged that in Argentina: « there are no more indigenous people ». …”
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Consensus Over Political Divisions: Polish Input in the Debate on Multiculturalism and Immigration to the European Union by Jerzy Ciechański

“… Multiculturalism as an ideology holds that Western societies ought to become mosaics of races, ethnicities and religions.  At least from the mid-1980s, multiculturalism has set out the contents and limits of public debate and policy on immigration in Western democracies. …”
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Turkmens: Victims of Arabization and Kurdification Policies in Kirkuk by Şafak OĞUZ

“…Kirkuk, with its large oil reserves, has constituted one of the most significant points of controversy politi­cally, ethnically, and economically in modern Iraq. Historically a Turkmen city, Kirkuk underwent a massive Arabization policy during the Baathist regime in order to modify the city’s demographics. …”
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Arabic Language Teaching Methodology: A Pilot Study at The International Language Institute, Sultan Ismail Petra International Islamic University College (KIAS) by Mohammad Jawwad Yusnan, Linamalini Mat Nafi, Nurin Zahidah Ahmad Zainuddin

“…Nowadays, Malaysians regardless of ages, faiths, and ethnicities are interested in learning Arabic. Research conducted by Che Radiah & Masittah (2011) indicates that children, teenagers, adults, and even the elderly have demonstrated the ability to acquire Arabic, either through formal or informal means. …”
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Consequences of "The Pasjane affair" for the Serbian population of the Gnjilane region by Milošević Miroslav S.

“…The aspiration of the Muslim population was to break up that environment as much as possible and the ethnic image to prevail in their favor.…”
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