Ethnogenesis (from the Greek words ethnos ἔθνος, group of people or nation, and genesis γένεσις, origin or birth)'s the process by which a group of human beings comes to be understood or to understand themselves as ethnically distinct from the wider social landscape from which their grouping emerges. By self-invention, ethnic groups are "present at their own creation", in the phrase of E. P. Thompson. This recognition of culture creati… (More on Ethnogenesis)