Categories and their usages in the social construction of a group of reference: “race”, “ethnicity” and “community” in the Americas.
David Robichaux takes up the theme of ethnic categories while at once disqualifying the usage of the terms “indian” and “mestizo” so general in Mexico in everyday and administrative language, quite like in studies on the question of ethnicity. Current and binary opposition of these terms, founded...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos
2009
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | David Robichaux takes up the theme of ethnic categories while at once disqualifying the usage of the terms “indian” and “mestizo” so general in Mexico in everyday and administrative language, quite like in studies on the question of ethnicity. Current and binary opposition of these terms, founded on the presence or absence of certain visible cultural traits, cannot, according to the author, cover numerous cases of figure in which the process of acculturation imposed after several decades by... |
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