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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
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Dynamic Changes in Eastern and Northern Chinese Dialects During the Han Dynasty [PDF]

open access: yes
本文的主要内容曾在“ICSTLL-55”(题目為“談揚雄《方言》中東齊海岱方言詞彙的特徴”,2022年9月16日,於京都大學)以及“Workshop: Chinese Language and its surroundings”(題目為“淺談漢代北方方言的形成過程”,2022年12月17日,於京都大學。京大中國語學研究會主辧) 上宣讀。This paper focuses on the Former Han Dynasty's Eastern and Northern Chinese dialects,
松江, 崇
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Education and Social Attitudes Toward Internal Migrants: Causal Evidence From China

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the causal impact of educational attainment on natives' attitudes toward internal migrants in China, a question central to understanding the social foundations of integration in rapidly urbanizing societies. Using nationally representative data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS), we find that higher education ...
Wei Huang   +3 more
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Performative Anchoring Practices and the Making of Belonging in Diaspora

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Greekness is constructed and negotiated by a member of the Greek second generation in Italy, a population largely absent from contemporary diaspora scholarship. Through a biographical and socio‐anthropological approach grounded in long‐term ethnographic fieldwork, the study shows how belonging emerges not as inherited
Andrea Pelliccia
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A Contrastive Study On the Glosseme "eat" among Chinese Dialects

open access: yes, 2004
文章采用古今南北综合比较的研究方法,考察汉语普通话及41个方言点之间相对应的义位“吃”在聚合、组合方面的共时差异和历史演变。1)“喫”在东汉时的汉译佛经中就已出现,至少在晚唐五代“吃”语义场基本上完成了“食”与“喫”的更替。不同方言相对应的词位区域分布特征可以看作北方官话、近江方言、远江方言在类型特征上的表现,同时反映了源流特征和地域特征。2)普通话和方言相对应的义位“吃”在组合关系上存在着差异,这与古代共同语的传承、汉民族义位“吃”义域范畴扩展、不同方言自身整合特点有关。By adopting a ...
解海江, 李如龙
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Sensing Frames: A Contribution to Sensory Pluralism

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Are expressions like “sense of responsibility,” “sense of community,” and “business acumen” merely metaphors, or do they refer to deeper, socially embedded forms of perception? This article introduces the concept of “sensing frames”: the socially learned, culturally shaped, and pragmatically enacted modalities through which people perceive and
Giampietro Gobo   +2 more
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Kinship and reproduction: A perspective of the Akha in Laos

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on fieldwork among the Akha people in Phongsaly District, Phongsaly Province, northern Laos, this paper examines Akha patrilineal kinship and its links to reproduction. The Akha people's reproductive decisions and behaviours are shaped by patrilineality, ancestral connections and cultural–spiritual perceptions of reproduction, which ...
Vanly Lorkuangming
wiley   +1 more source

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