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“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city
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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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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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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Exemplary differences: ethnicity, mythic histories, and essentialism in Khovd, Mongolia
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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Quantifying basic colors' salience from cross‐linguistic corpora
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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Don Kalmyks: the Folk Tradition of Riddle-Telling Revisited (a Case Study of I. Popov’s Materials)
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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Taxation and the Polanyian forms of integration in socialist and postsocialist Hungary
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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The Buryat Language Policy in 1930s : Problems of the Alphabet Reform and the New Written Language
The 1930s were a time when the Buryat language experienced drastic changes. It changed its alphabet twice and the dialect on which the standard language should be based three times.
荒井, 幸康
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The article discusses factors influencing language maintenance under changing social, cultural, economic and political conditions of Polish minority in Siberia.
Michal Gluszkowski
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Emotive-Evaluative Causative Constructions in the Buryat Language
Рассматриваются эмотивно-оценочные каузативные конструкции вины и осуждения в бурятском языке. Актуальность работы определяется современным комплексным подходом к изучению таких функционально-семантических категорий, как каузативность, а также возросшим интересом к проблемам категории эмотивности в лингвистике, а также продиктована необходимостью ...
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