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ABOUT ONE RITUAL TEXT OF THE OSSETIANS AND ABKHAZIANS
Kavkaz-forum, 2022 В статье рассмотрено обрядовое хождение молодой невестки к источнику воды, которое прочитывается автором как право пользования водой аула, села, рода, что было эквивалентно праву принятия в члены аула (села, рода), куда невеста вышла замуж. Достижение данной цели осуществляется посредством использования этнографического и лингвистического материала ...
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 4, April 2025.ABSTRACT Objectives Thanks to its pivotal crossroad position, Bulgaria played a fundamental key role during all the migration processes that interested the continent through time. While the genetic variability of the country has been deeply investigated using uniparental markers, previous genome‐wide autosomal‐based surveys mainly consisted of wider ...
Stefania Sarno +13 more
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The Sustainability and Future of Unrecognized Quasi-States [PDF]
, 2006 The study of quasi-states has been marred by an unfortunate terminological confusion. Sometimes, this term is taken to mean recognized states that fail to develop the necessary state structures to function as fully fledged, ‘real’ states. At other times,
Kolstø, Pål
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Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 3, March 2024.Abstract Human languages vary in terms of which meanings they lexicalize, but this variation is constrained. It has been argued that languages are under two competing pressures: the pressure to be simple (e.g., to have a small lexicon) and to allow for informative (i.e., precise) communication, and that which meanings get lexicalized may be explained ...
Milica Denić, Jakub Szymanik
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A Stability Pact for the Caucasus in Theory and Practice - A Supplementary Note. CEPS Working Document No. 152, September 2000 [PDF]
, 2000 In response to appeals of the leaders of the South Caucasus for a Stability Pact for the region, CEPS published in May 2000 a consultative document with a comprehensive proposal (available on www.ceps.be).
Emerson, Michael +2 more
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CONTENTS AND FORMS OF INTELLECTUAL UPBRINGING IN THE ABKHAZIAN NATIONAL PEDAGOGY
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015 The paper is a part of the research that deals with the Abkhazian national pedagogy, its peculiarities and principles. The actuality of the work is explained in the following: the Abkhazian national pedagogy contains a set of unique upbringing methods ...
M. F. Ankvab
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Marx, Lenin and Pashukanis on self-determination: response to Robert Knox [PDF]
, 2011 This response to Robert Knox’s very kind and constructive review1 of my 2008 book The Degradation of the International Legal Order?: The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of Politics gives me the opportunity not only to answer some of his ...
Bowring, Bill
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КавказологияThe article is devoted to one element of the traditional funeral and memorial rituals among the peoples of the Northwest Caucasus (using the example of the Abkhazians and Karachays), associated with rituals and beliefs about the return of the soul of the
Ritsa Sh. Zelnitskaya
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Georgia at a glance: Abakhazian and South Ossetian conflict [PDF]
, 2006 In modern world ethnic conflict has become one of the biggest problems of the contemporary life. In order to understand ethnic conflict we should understand the difference between nationality and ethnicity.
Süslü, Zafer
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