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MULTI ETHNIC [1 record]

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Record 1 1994-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
  • Social Organization
DEF

involving or pertaining to two or more distinct ethnic groups.

CONT

Concrete hypotheses are also developed about the interaction between the processes of class formation and ethnic-national mobilization in ethnically homogeneous, in pluriethnic, and in multinational societies.

OBS

The term "pluriethnic" has been found in the International Journal of Group Tensions, 1992.

OBS

"multi" does not take a hyphen unless the main word begins with i (multi-insular).

Key term(s)
  • multi-ethnic
  • multi ethnic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
  • Organisation sociale
DEF

Où coexistent plusieurs ethnies différente.

CONT

Le régime titiste promulgue un statut pluri-ethnique (conçu pour plusieurs ethnies) à l'exemple de l'U.R.R.S.

Key term(s)
  • multi-ethnique
  • pluriethnique

Spanish

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