This research examines theoretically and empirically the economic origins of cultural diversity shedding new light on the emergence of ethnolinguistic fractionalization. Constructing detailed data on the distribution of land quality across regions and countries, the empirical analysis, conducted at various levels of aggregation, establishes that variation in regional land quality has contribute...

Tarlac State University (TSU) is a multi-ethnic and multicultural institution with student population that predominated by the Kapampangan, Ilocano, Tagalog ethnolinguistic groups. This paper comparative study of ethnic national stereotypes self-stereotypes these three Using modified Katz Braly trait checklist, as well their uniformity index, this was able to: 1) compare contrast positivity ste...

The application of conventional phylogenetic techniques for inferring cultural history is problematic due to differences in the nature of information transmission in biological and cultural realms. In culture, units of transmission are not just measurable attributes, but communicable concepts. Therefore, relatedness amongst cultural elements often resides at the conceptual level not captured by...

The Philippine "negrito" groups comprise a diverse group of populations speaking over 30 different languages, who are spread all over the archipelago, mostly in marginal areas of Luzon Island in the north, the central Visayas islands, and Mindanao in the south. They exhibit physical characteristics that are different from more than 100 Philippine ethnolinguistic groups that are categorized as n...

This article discusses possibilities for an elaboration of cognitive linguistic metaphor theory that takes into account the sociocultural situatedness of language and cognition. The approach of the Ethnolinguistic School of Lublin, linking anthropological with cognitive perspectives on language, is introduced. The objectives of the article are i) to introduce this line of research, well-known i...