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The Dynamics of Change in Multiethnic Societies Special Feature

The large urban centers of the modern world are generally heterogeneous, multiethnic societies. Immigrants come to these settlements looking for better living conditions and for work opportunities. This Special Feature explores the dynamics of change in past multiethnic societies from a wide variety of historic scenarios, with an eye to understanding how cooperation and tensions between different ethnic components generated social transformation.

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Theories of ethnicity and the dynamics of ethnic change in multiethnic societies
Richard E. Blanton
PNAS July 28, 2015 112 (30) 9176-9181; first published March 16, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1421406112

Different types of multiethnic societies and different patterns of development and change in the prehistoric Near East
Marcella Frangipane
PNAS July 28, 2015 112 (30) 9182-9189; first published May 26, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419883112

Early Bronze Age migrants and ethnicity in the Middle Eastern mountain zone
Mitchell S. Rothman
PNAS July 28, 2015 112 (30) 9190-9195; first published June 15, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502220112

Symbolic bones and interethnic violence in a frontier zone, northwest Mexico, ca. 500–900 C.E.
Ben A. Nelson and Debra L. Martin
PNAS July 28, 2015 112 (30) 9196-9201; first published May 4, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1422337112

Multiethnicity, pluralism, and migration in the south central Andes: An alternate path to state expansion
Paul S. Goldstein
PNAS July 28, 2015 112 (30) 9202-9209; first published July 20, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1500487112

Cooperation and tensions in multiethnic corporate societies using Teotihuacan, Central Mexico, as a case study
Linda R. Manzanilla
PNAS July 28, 2015 112 (30) 9210-9215; first published March 16, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419881112

Dynamics of change in multiethnic societies: An archaeological perspective from colonial North America
Kent G. Lightfoot
PNAS July 28, 2015 112 (30) 9216-9223; first published April 13, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1422190112

Imperial expansion, public investment, and the long path of history: China’s initial political unification and its aftermath
Hui Fang, Gary M. Feinman, and Linda M. Nicholas
PNAS July 28, 2015 112 (30) 9224-9229; first published March 16, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419157112