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On language, (inter)disciplinarity, and collaboration with local scholars in Papua New Guinea environmental anthropology

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract How can anthropologists ensure the accuracy of the statements they make in their publications, especially in an era of ever increasing budgetary and bureaucratic pressures that limit the duration of fieldwork? What should the role of language abilities be in this context and to what degree is it necessary to learn the language of the place ...
Mark Collins, Tukul Walla Kaiku
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Book Review of Heather McCrea, Diseased Relations: Epidemic, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 [PDF]

, 2012
Diseased Relations is an impressive work succinct in its focus on the topic of public health history in the Mexican state of Yucatán. Adding to a growing body of scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book offers a new lens ...
Quezada-Grant, Autumn L, Dr
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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THE JAMAICAN VARIANT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE POST-CREOLE CONTINUUM

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2017
Today the Jamaican variant of English language constitutes a unique linguistic phenomenon, which is currently undergoing many changes arising from its relatively recent appearance.
A. A. Bushmanov, P. J. Mitchell
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The double modal construction in English world wide

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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The problem of the abolition of slavery and maritime rights on U.S. vessels with regards to British American relations in the first half of the 19th century

Przegląd Nauk Historycznych, 2020
The article analyses the struggle of Anglo-American relations connected to slaves and maritime rights on the sea from 1831 to 1842. The study is based on monographs, reports, treaties and correspondences between the two countries from the explosion of ...
Nguyen Van Sang, Jolanta A. Daszyńska
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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Les créoles louisianais défendent la cause du Sud à Paris (1861‑1865)

Transatlantica, 2006
During the Civil war, the French‑educated Creole elite of Louisiana played an important part in efforts to persuade France to support the Confederacy.
Salwa Nacouzi
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Consumption and excess in Spanish America (1700-1830) [PDF]

, 2003
It may be said without exaggeration, that the finest stuffs made in countries, where industry is always inventing something new, are more generally seen in Lima than in any other place; vanity and ostentation not being restrained by custom or law ...
Earle, Rebecca
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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