ethnoscape

plural ethnoscapes

1. A transnational distribution of correlated people.

   The divine command to Isaac in 26:3 to sojourn in a land promised as a future possession accents a flexible relation to the ethnoscape, one that serves ethnic identity.

   2011, Elisabeth Robertson Kennedy, “Seeking a Homeland: Sojourn and Ethnic Identity in the Ancestral Narratives of Genesis”, in Biblical Interpretation Series, volume 106, page 234

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   The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.

   1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   Is an ethnoscape preserved as a tourist attraction still an ethnoscape? In the English case, David Lowenthal suspects it is not: “The heritage landscape is less and less England, more and more 'England-land,' Europe's offshore theme park. […]

   2006, Katrina Z. S. Schwartz, Nature and National Identity After Communism, page 200