An<unk>  (also called a people or an<unk> ity) is a<unk>  of human beings whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry.<unk>  identity is also marked by the recognition from others of a<unk> 's distinctiveness and by common cultural, linguistic, religious, behavioral or biological traits.
According to the international meeting on the Challenges of Measuring an<unk>  World (1992),<unk> ity is a fundamental factor in human life: it is a phenomenon inherent in human experience" despite its often malleable definitions. Others, like anthropologists Fredrik Barth and Eric Wolf, regard<unk> ity as a result of interaction, rather than essential qualities of<unk> s.
Processes that result in the emergence of such identification are called ethnogenesis. Members of an<unk> , on the whole, claim cultural continuities over time, although historians and cultural anthropologists have documented that many of the values, practices, and norms that imply continuity with the past are of relatively recent invention.
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