It is important to recognize that although ethnic categories take cul- tural differences into account, we can assume no simple one-to-one relationship between ethnic units and cultural similarities and differ- ences. The features that are taken into account are not the sum of 'objective' differences, but only those which the actors themselves regard as significant. Not only do ecologic variations mark and exag- gerate differences; some cultural features are used by the actors as signals and emblems of differences, others are ignored, and in some relationships radical differences are played down and denied. The cul- tural contents of ethnic dichotomies would seem analytically to be of two orders: (i) overt signals or signs - the diacritical features that people look for and exhibit to show ... (查看原文)
弗雷德里克·巴斯 作者
散仙儿
商务印书馆2014版
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