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“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city
City &Society, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 78-90, August 2024.Abstract Anyone who has lived in a city knows that, separately from the administrative or electoral districts, there are districts that exist in the imagination. Areas of the city seem to have a distinctive character and ethos. The article suggests that such notional place‐forming occurs spontaneously through everyday sensations, life activities, and ...
Caroline Humphrey
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Earth's Future, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2024.Abstract Wildfires emit atmospheric aerosols, affecting climate and air quality. Siberia is a known source region of wildfires. However, comprehensive knowledge regarding the impact associated with particulate matter pollution due to Siberian wildfires on climate and air quality and their effects on mortality and the economy under present and near ...
Teppei J. Yasunari +4 more
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American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 3, March 2024.Abstract The field of human biology has long explored how human populations have adapted to extreme environmental circumstances. Yet, it has become increasingly clear that conditions of social stress, poverty, and lifestyle change play equally important roles in shaping human biological variation and health.
William R. Leonard
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Don Kalmyks: the Folk Tradition of Riddle-Telling Revisited (a Case Study of I. Popov’s Materials)
Oriental Studies, 2020 Goals. The article aims to describe common riddle-telling patterns of the Don Kalmyks as of the late 19th century traced in works by I. Popov, a famous collector of Kalmyk folklore samples. Materials.
Saglara V. Mirzaeva
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Exemplary differences: ethnicity, mythic histories, and essentialism in Khovd, Mongolia
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 97-114, March 2024.Abstract This article provides an ethnographic account of understandings of ‘ethnic’ difference in Khovd province, Mongolia. It attempts to use said material to challenge the terms of debate within the current concern with ‘essentialism’ in social theory.
Joe Ellis
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About Applied and Theoretical Lexicography of the Buryat Language (towards the issues history)
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article examines the problem of theoretical interpretation of the Buryat dictionaries. The Buryat language today has several bilingual, one thematic and one brief explanatory dictionaries as well as a number of other special dictionaries.
Babasan Tcyrenov
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Quantifying basic colors' salience from cross‐linguistic corpora
Color Research &Application, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 34-50, January/February 2024.From the Basic Color Terms Hierarchy of Berlin and Kay to our proposal based on corpus data from 57 Languages. Abstract A corpus‐based quantitative assessment of Berlin and Kay's proposal is presented. We refine the Basic Color Terms hierarchy proposed by Berlin and Kay, through the concept of salience.
Antoni Brosa‐Rodríguez +1 more
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Taxation and the Polanyian forms of integration in socialist and postsocialist Hungary
Economic Anthropology, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 6-17, January 2024.Abstract Reciprocity, redistribution, and (market) exchange were the “forms of integration” put forward by Karl Polanyi as a “special tool box” to investigate relations between economy and society where the principle of price‐forming markets is not (yet) dominant.
Chris Hann
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Styles of Communication, 2013 This chapter is concerned with a Buryat origin minority in China named Shenehen Buryats. The Buryats originally reside in the Russian Federation around Lake Baikal.
Irina Boldonova, Darima Boronoeva
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MEANS OF EXPRESSING AND INTENSIFICATION EMOTIONALITY IN THE BURYAT LANGUAGE
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology, 2022 В статье впервые рассматриваются синтаксические средства выражения эмоций в бурятском языке, а также средства их усиления. Актуальность темы исследования определяется возрастающим значением антропоцентрической научной парадигмы и малой изученностью выражения эмоций в бурятских конструкциях.
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