Ethnicity

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Dinesh ^club

In talking of ethnic groups, then, we mean groups of people who recognize themselves as distinct, and who see this distinction as part of their birthright. Many definitions have been offered in the anthropological literature: one of the most convenient was quoted by the Soviet ethnologist Dragadze

Ethnos . . . can be defined as a firm aggregate of people, historically established on a given territory, possessing in common relativity stable particularities of language and culture, and also recognizing their unity and difference from other similar formations (self-awareness) and expressing this in a self-appointed name (ethnonym).

This seems to me a very convenient definition: it refers to the historical realities of kinship and descent, to the spatial aspect, the community of language, and to other features which will often include religion. Then it rightly stresses that for a group to be a real ethnic group, it must be aware of itself as such. The group will therefore have a name for itself -- an ethnonym.

3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.

J.Garcia ^club

Many thanks for remenber, Dinesh

3 years ago.

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