communal identity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcommunalandidentity
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communal
adjective
uk/ˈkɒm.jə.nəl/us/ˈkɑː.mjə.nəl/
belonging to or used by a group of people rather than one ...
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identity
noun
uk/aɪˈden.tə.ti/us/aɪˈden.t̬ə.t̬i/
a person's name and other facts about who ...
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(Definition ofcommunalandidentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Accounts of a country's past are often more fiction than history and function in the same way to create and foster acommunalidentity.
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A separate study needs to be undertaken to explain the retention of a strongcommunalidentityby this social segment.
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What is especially important about thiscommunalidentityis its newness.
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Languages do not exist only as competitive instruments of communication but also as means of personal expression andcommunalidentity.
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It seems likely therefore that the mass of the factory workforce had more of acommunalidentityin the north.
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It also raises interesting questions about religious andcommunalidentityand the implications of early and large-scale conversion for our understanding of intercommunal relations.
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Venerated as a fount ofcommunalidentity, cherished as a precious and endangered resource, yesterday became less and less like today.
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The city was equally expected to perform a religious function: the agora and temples were reserved for divers rituals held regularly to remind the population of theircommunalidentity.
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Communalidentityhas been understood as a narrow and unifying construction that was necessarily opposed to identification with any alternative political community.
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Frequent references to religious observances conducted by members of hang attest to at least a modest sense ofcommunalidentityapart from their collective obligations to the state.
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Within its own community it must work to revive and strengthen the sense ofcommunalidentity.
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Narrative storytelling is used to guide children on proper behavior, cultural history, formation of acommunalidentity, and values.
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The festivals were more so a place to celebrate onescommunalidentitythan to gather in a religious capacity.
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Limn therefore suggests that the novel argues for the importance of acommunalidentityrather than an individualist one.
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The inheritor of the ideas and issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, his photoworks, texts, and installations re-examine historically-fraught meanings of geography, culture, and personal andcommunalidentity.
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How successful are political institutions in adjudicating between the competing claims for recognition, inclusion and equality based on communal identities in multiethnic societies?
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Secondly, the local parcelling of governmental powers strengthened rather than dissipated communal identities and boundaries even as it redefined them.
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It then explores the formation of subjectivity, particularly the relationship between individual and communal identities.
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Church membership and religious activity gave women peer support and place for meaningful activity outside the home, providing many women withcommunalidentityand shared experiences.
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Chapter five shows that by the early 1920s football was a central component of the urban experience, whether in the making of individual, neigbourhood or wider communal identities (p. 228).
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