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Ethnic Groups and Boundariesby Fredrik Barth IntroductionThis collection of essays addresses itself to the problems of ethnicgroups and their persistence. This is a theme of great, but neglected,importance to social anthropology. Practically all anthropologicalreasoning rests on the premise that cultural variation is discontinuous:that there are aggregates of people who essentially share a commonculture, and interconnected differences that distinguish each suchdiscrete culture from all others. Since culture is nothing but a way todescribe human behaviour, it would follow that there are discretegroups of people, Ethnic units, to correspond to each culture. Thedifferences between cultures, and their historic Boundaries and con-nections, have been given much attention; the constitution of ethnicgroups, and the nature of the Boundaries between them, have not beencorrespondingly investigated.

Ethnic Groups and Boundaries by Fredrik Barth Introduction This collection of essays addresses itself to the problems of ethnic groups and their persistence.

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