Sam Migliore

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Ethnic affiliation continues to persist in Canada because the members of different ethnic minority groups have devised various techniques for maintaining their ethnic and cultural identity. In this paper, I examine the specific techniques that Sicilian-Canadian residents of Hamilton, Ontario have developed to identify themselves as part of a particular ethnic community. Of particular importance in this discussion is the role of religious symbols in the process of in-group identification. More specifically, the use of religious symbols allows people to express their cultural identity and thereby identify themselves as Sicilian-Canadian

Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology

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