Is this sufficient to support primordialism? Concerns Gil-White surveys people’s “essentialist beliefs” in Mongolia Changes in ethnicity can only occur slowly over time not a result of individual choice.Ethno-biological/essentialist way of thinking is innate in human psychology \(\to\) will repeatedly emerge, not a function of historical context.\(\to\) even behavior of those w/out essentialist beliefs is essentialist Primordialism \(\to\) acting as-if groups are essential Gil-White proposes several hypotheses that derive from this. It does not accept essentialist definition of ethnicity, but states that most people in practice adopt an essentialist view of ethnicity (“ethno-biological Ethnic Transmission and Acquisition Model”). Primordialist definition of ethnicity differs from essentialism: even if not natural, people treat them “as if” they are natural.shared (or imagination of shared) culture (language, religion), tradition, history.
The psychological attachment to descent-based membership is innate in humans (Gil-White 1999) “The attachment to another member of one’s kinship group is not just a function of interaction… It is because a certain ineffable signicance is attributed to the tie of blood” Identification Beyond Essentialism Rejecting Essentialism A Checkered history (morally fraught) Category of practice not of analysis
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