"ethnosuicide" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1964, L. Bryce Boyer, “Folk Psychiatry of the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation”, in Ari Kiev, editor, Magic, Faith, and Healing: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today, pages 408-409:",
          "text": "R. M. Boyer has postulated that a societal safeguard against ethnosuicide is to be found in the widespread dependent tendencies combined with retention of individual rights of decision-making.",
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          "ref": "2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92:",
          "text": "According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.",
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          "ref": "2011, José Rabasa, chapter 1, in Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World, page 13:",
          "text": "The call to commit ethnosuicide is perplexing, for it led the Nahuas to wonder why they were asked to destroy their culture and selves [...]",
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        "The destruction of an ethnic identity by members of that ethnicity."
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          "ref": "1964, L. Bryce Boyer, “Folk Psychiatry of the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation”, in Ari Kiev, editor, Magic, Faith, and Healing: Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today, pages 408-409:",
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          "ref": "2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92:",
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          "ref": "2011, José Rabasa, chapter 1, in Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World, page 13:",
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