Ethnogenesis

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The emergence of a distinct, recognizable, ethnic identity. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From ethno- + -genesis. While attested incidentally before the twentieth century, it gained currency particularly in the postwar era as a scholarly concept.

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