Ethiopia is a composite of more than 70 ethnic groups. The Oromo (Galla) group represents approximately 40% of the population and is concentrated primarily in the southern half of the nation.
Ethnic in South Sudan has a long history among South Sudan’s varied ethnic groups.South Sudan has 64 tribes with the largest being the Dinkas, who constitute about 35% of the population and predominate in government.
When originally published in Norway, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked the transition to a new era of ethnic studies. Today this much-cited classic is regarded as the seminal volume from which stems much current anthropological thinking about ethnicity.
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Mali, Sudan, and Ethnic Conflict in Northern Africa (also available in French here). Africa, for all its beauty and rich history, has always been a …
The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared cultural heritage, ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect, the term culture specifically including aspects such as religion, mythology and
The UUPG List. Here you can find the list of the world’s unengaged, unreached people groups that have no known full-time workers involved in evangelism and church planting!
Ethnic definition, pertaining to or characteristic of a people, especially a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
The definition and boundaries of ethnic groups depend on how people perceive themselves and others. Language, cultural characteristics, and common ancestry may be used as markers of ethnic identity or difference, but they do not always define groups of people. Thus, the people called Atuot and the