Abstract:Scholarly inquiry into ethnic and racial boundaries has occupied a prominent place in social science research. Its intellectual roots can be traced largely to Fredrik Barth, who argued that understanding the construction and maintenance of ethnic groups should be accomplished by looking at the boundaries between groups. His insights have since been developed in the literature, with particular attention to institutional dynamics and cognitive processes in ethnic boundary development.
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