Ecological Theory and Ethnic Differentiation Among Human Populations [and Comments and Replies]

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7195032
AutoresWilliam S Abruzzi, Judith K Brown (0000-0003-4669-8443), Judith Brown (0000-0003-4092-9685), Thomas E Durbin, Richard Fidler, Richard C Fidler, Donald L Hardesty, Peter Hinton, Marshall G Hurlich, J C Kennedy (0000-0002-6672-5288), Hal B Levine (0000-0001-7101-802X), Ubaldo Martínez Veiga, Michael Moerman, F L Pelt, Eric Β Ro, Eric Β Ross, Eric Barry Ross, T S Vasulu, B Winterhalder (0000-0001-6560-3302)
Ano1982
Volume23
Fascículo1
Páginas13-35
Data de publicação1982-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCurrent Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/202777
OpenAlexW2292098240
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25

The formation and maintenance of distinct ethnic populations within multiethnic communities is proposed to be functionally equivalent to the process of species diversification in multispecies communities. This paper suggests that while these processes operate through different selective mechanisms-one social and the other genetic-ethnic boundaries, like species boundaries, function to regulate the behavior of potentially competing populations in relation to each other and to available resources. The similarities between these two boundary-formation processes are defined and explored in an attempt to place a traditional anthropological concern within a broader theoretical perspective

Biology · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economic geography · Ethnic group · Evolutionary biology · Function (biology · Geography · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Ecology · Indigenous Studies and Ecology