English citations of ethnie

  • 1994/2002, Tim Ingold, “Introduction to culture” in Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Humanity, Culture and Social Life, ed. Tim Ingold, Oxford/New York: Routledge (2007 digital printing), →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), article 12, page 346:
    However, it is in the formation of ethnic identities, and the various kinds of solidarity based on them, that expressive culture enters most directly and powerfully into the political process. This is a theme taken up by Smith in Article 25. His major concern is with the ways in which communities based on shared ethnic affiliation, which he calls ethnie, convert themselves into nations.
  • 1994/2002, Anthony D. Smith, “The politics of culture: ethnicity and nationalism” in Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology [opere citato], article 25, page 709:
    By the time we meet historical societies with written records, to the familial and residential circles of identity must be added those of the city state, social stratum and what I shall call the ‘ethnic community’ or ethnie. The ethnie can be defined as a human group whose members share common myths of origin and descent, historical memories, cultural patterns and values, association with a particular territory, and a sense of solidarity, at least among the élites.
  • 1994/2002, ibidem, page 713:
    Further research is required to show how far such myths of ethnic election can ensure the viability of ethnie, and how far they depend for their effects on other circumstances.
  • 1998, Florin Curta, Making an Early Medieval Ethnie: The Case of the Early Slavs, Sixth to Seventh Century A.D., Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, main title
  • 2002/2014, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History, Oxford: Oxford University Press (new edition, 2014), →ISBN, chapter 1: “From Fireball to the Unified Kingdom, 10,000 BC–AD 1100”, page 27:
    The obscurity about the major ethnie of Dark Age Scotland was more to do with the fact that the eloquence of their complex sculptured stones was not transliterated into Roman script.
  • 2010, Steve Fenton, Ethnicity, Cambridge/Malden: Polity (second edition), →ISBN (hardback), →ISBN (paperback), chapter 3: “The Demise of Race: The Emergence of ‘Ethnic’”, § 3.1: ‘Ethnic group (ethnie) and nation’, page 52:
    Ethnie’ shares much with ‘nation’ but lacks the sense of self-governing entity; if an ethnic group (ethnie) wishes to rule itself it needs to start calling itself a nation, as French Canadians have demonstrated.