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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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Alterations in mindset of modern Buryats: the evidence from psychosemantic studies
Новые исследования Тувы, 2017 The article examines the changes in the mindset of Buryats from the standpoint of the psychosemantic approach. This qualitative methodology is especially relevant for cross-cultural studies.
Tuyana Ts. Dugarova +3 more
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Shrinking autonomy for Tatarstan and Gagauzia: the perils of flexible institutional design [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Prina, Federica
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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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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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CoNLL 2017 Shared Task : Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies [PDF]
, 2017 The Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) features a shared task, in which participants train and test their learning systems on the same data sets.
Attia, Mohammed +61 more
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Male feathered headwear of 13th-14th centuries [PDF]
, 2017 The article considers Mongol male feathered headwear of 13th-14th centuries discovered at various archaeological sites to determine the validity and diversity of the research subject.
Maklasova, Lyudmila E. +1 more
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What is a reindeer? Indigenous perspectives from northeast Siberia [PDF]
, 2014 The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) is the mainstay of most of the indigenous cultures and economies of the Eurasian north. Yet much of the literature ignores indigenous perspectives in favour of ecological perspectives based on a resource-oriented model ...
Alekseyev, Anatoly, Vitebsky, Piers
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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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