Are identities fungible? How do people come to identify with specific groups? This paper proposes a revealed preference approach, using food consumption uncover ethnic and religious identity choices in India. We first show that of goods (e.g. beef pork) responds forces suggested by social-identity research: group status salience, the latter proxied inter-group conflict. Moreover, respond cost f...

As we have argued throughout, language is always already political. Nevertheless, collegiate German studies curricula often seem largely indifferent to politics, especially those that complicate or disrupt the notion of as a singular with an indexical relationship nation-states which it associated. However, discourses such described in previous sections on linguistic indifference cultural produ...