How thick is blood? The plot thickens ...: If ethnic actors are primordialists, what remains of the circumstantialist/primordialist controversy?

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 789-820

  Gil White, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumstantialism; Cognition; Ethnicity; Instrumentalism; Mongo lia; Primordialism

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; ETHNICITY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 0032760214     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014198799329260     Document Type: Article

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