ethnogenesis

English

Etymology

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

Noun

ethnogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural ethnogeneses)

  1. The emergence of a distinct, recognizable, ethnic identity.

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