Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? ; how do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? [PDF]
, 2010 Two problems cloud our understanding of subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman. One is the lack of consistent and clear standards and principles for subgrouping.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Woven Webs: Trading Textiles around the Indian Ocean [PDF]
, 2012 Throughout its long history, the changing networks of the Indian Ocean textile trade have served as circuits of material communication, transmitting cultural values embodied in cloth, defining and redefining identities and relationships.
Davidson, Lola Sharon
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Resilience of small-scale societies’ livelihoods: a framework for studying the transition from food gathering to food production [PDF]
, 2016 The origins of agriculture and the shift from hunting and gathering to committed agriculture is regarded as one of the major transitions in human history.
García-Granero Fos, Juan José +7 more
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Himalayan Hybridity and the Evolution of Ladakhi Popular Music [PDF]
, 2018 Historically, Ladakh in the Western Himalayas was a significant nexus of Trans-Himalayan caravan trade, and thus exhibited a significant hybridity in its material, linguistic, religious, and musical culture.
Dinnerstein, Noé
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Medicinal Mandala: Potency in Spatiality [PDF]
, 2019 This article explores the complexities of accomplishing potency, nüpa (nus pa), within a Tibetan healing, rejuvenation, and longevity ritual practice known as ‘medicinal accomplishment,’ mendrup (sman sgrub).
Sehnalova, Anna
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Producing Himalayan Darjeeling: Mobile People and Mountain Encounters [PDF]
, 2016 This article explores the social production of Darjeeling through the social and cultural encounters that helped transform a mountain health resort for colonial functionaries into a vibrant Himalayan hub for vernacular modernity and local cosmopolitanism.
Sharma, Jayeeta
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Ergative marking in Tibeto-Burman [PDF]
, 2010 This paper presents the first results of a comprehensive project on comparative Tibeto-Burman (TB) morpho-syntax. Data on morphological forms and typological patterns were collected from one hundred fifty-one languages and dialects in the TB family.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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, 2010 We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization for about 190 countries. These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the economics literature and we compare our new variables with those previously ...
Alesina, Alberto +4 more
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A systematic method towards generating the Malaysian folktale classification system [PDF]
, 2014 This paper explicates two methods used in a study conducted to propose a Malaysian folktale classification system.Fundamentally, three substantial folktale classification systems exist and individually, each system classifies based on three distinctive ...
Harun, Harryizman, Jamaludin, Zulikha
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Indigenous institutions as adaptive measures to environmental dynamics: an ethnographic study of Loba Community of Upper Mustang, Nepal. [PDF]
Int J Anthropol Ethnol, 2023 Khattri MB, Pandey R.
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