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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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Semantics of Property Terms in the Buryat Language (based on ed baraa)
Introduction. The article is devoted to the establishment of differential semantic features of the Buryat term ed baraa, presented in the monuments of Old Mongolian writing of the 18th–19th centuries, reflecting the usual legal practice of the Buryats in
Bardamova Ekaterina A. +1 more
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The morpho-phonology of accusative and genitive case in Barguzin Buryat
In this paper, I explore an aspect of the morpho-phonology of accusative and genitive case in the Barguzin dialect of Buryat. While most case suffixes in this language are straightforward, accusative and genitive case display considerable complexity.
Davis, Colin, Colin Davis
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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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The article depicts the translation process in intercultural communication within a psycholinguistic approach, namely the model of salience translation developed by P. P. Dashinimaeva (2010, 2017a).
Budaeva, Tsyndyma Lvovna
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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 Sartul Buryat Dialect: A Preliminary Analysis
Have you ever wondered what is really happening to minority languages of Northeast Asia and which efforts are being taken both by “westerners” and local people to preserve and promote them?
Khabtagaeva, Bayarma +1 more
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Turkic Elements in the Floral Vocabulary of the Kalmyk Language
On the material of the Kalmyk language with reference to the Khalkha Mongolian, the Buryat languages and old Mongolian script, the article considers a thematic group of floral vocabulary to identify the Turkic-Mongolian parallels.
V. V. Kukanova, V. M. Trofimov
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