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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Bantu-Khoisan contact in southern Africa
, 2019 <p>Before the arrival of Bantu languages, southern Africa was dominated by speakers of Khoisan languages, a group of three unrelated language families that share the typologically highly unusual feature of using click phonemes.
Gunnink, Hilde (8311815), Gunnink, Hilde
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Auxiliary Verb Constructions and Decategorialization in Gĩkũyũ
Nordic Journal of African StudiesGĩkũyũ (E.51) exhibits several verbs that can be used both as lexical verbs and as auxiliary verbs. We compare the lexical and auxiliary usages of four verbs and show that all auxiliary verb usages display uniform restrictions concerning valency-related
Jens Fleischhauer +1 more
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Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2018 This paper presents the results of a micro-variation project in which linguistic diversity of the Eastern Cape of South Africa is examined. It shows that regional variation in the Xhosa dialect cluster is minimal and that many older forms and sounds that
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström
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“The Father is also the Sister”: A Non-binary Gendered History of Matrilineal Bantu Communities
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2023 Gender, as broadly construed by Bantu-speaking peoples, is not fixed in the same way that it is in the West. This kind of gender flexibility is counter to binary gender concepts which classify gender into two separate, opposite, and rigid forms of ...
Christine Saidi
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante +3 more
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Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012
Lexikos, 2012 In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum, e Congense, handed down to us through a manuscript from 1652 by the Flemish Capuchin Joris van Gheel, missionary in the Kongo (present ...
Jasper De Kind +2 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), while offering strategic advantages in warfare, pose significant ethical, legal, and security risks, especially for countries in the Global South. This article examines how a philosophical perspective, rooted in African ethical and political thought, can enrich regional and global debates on regulating ...
Ezenwa E. Olumba +3 more
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Proto-Bantu existential locational construction(s)
, 2022 This chapter proposes a Proto-Bantu reconstruction of existential constructions based on a convenience sample of 180 Bantu languages, which points towards “existential locationals” (ELs) as a suitable base for comparison.
Devos, Maud +3 more
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