Practice question · Multiple choice
Barth argued that ethnic groups persist even when their language, dress and religion have all changed. What does that force us to locate ethnicity in?
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- Ask what did NOT change in Barth’s cases.
- A diaspora keeps its identity without land and often without the language.
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B. The boundary and its maintenance, not the content inside
Why
If every trait can be swapped and the group survives, the traits were not what constituted it. What persists is the act of drawing and policing a line.
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