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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia

Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
wiley   +1 more source

Endangered Languages Data Summary

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
Linguistic Society of America. Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation., Yamamoto, Akira Y.   +1 more
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Nearly Extinct African Languages in Their Linguistic Landscape: Tjwao of Zimbabwe

Darnioji daugiakalbystė
The present article studies the visibility of a nearly extinct language Tjwao (Khoe-Kwadi) in the linguistic landscape (LL) of the rural district of Tsholotsho –an area historically associated with the Tjwa in Zimbabwe.
Andrason Alexander, Phiri Admire
doaj   +1 more source

Ancestral languages and (imagined) creolization

Language Documentation and Description, 2005
It is sometimes argued that the language of certain indigenous communities in North America and Australia is no longer the ancestral language, but ‘Indian English’ or ‘Eskimo English’ or ‘Aboriginal English.’ But are these stable, persistent, emblems of ...
doaj   +2 more sources

Caring for forests between attitude and platitude. Social relationships with nature in industrial forestry in Äänekoski, Finland

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forests play a pivotal role in sustainability transitions. This article explores how people's relationships with forests, particularly how they care for or take care of them, shape and reflect broader tendencies and tensions in forest utilization and governance.
Jana Rebecca Holz
wiley   +1 more source

Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Digital surveillance technologies (DSTs) are widely applied in nature recovery for their potential to generate novel data on species and ecosystems through digital tracking, automation (e.g. from hazardous locations) and from newly recruited citizen scientists.
William M. Adams
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing grammatical documentation for endangered languages with graph-based meaning representation and Loopy Belief Propagation

Natural Language Processing Journal
DIG4EL (Digital Inferential Grammars for Endangered Languages) is a method embodied in software designed to assist linguists and teachers in producing grammatical descriptions for endangered languages.
Sebastien Christian
doaj   +1 more source

Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw, Adrian Mackenzie, Martin Westgate, Kylie Morrow   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endangered Languages: A Systematic Qualitative Study of Socio-Cultural Impacts and Revitalisation

Darnioji daugiakalbystė
This study investigates endangered language preservation through three research questions: risk factors for endangerment, socio-cultural effects of language loss, and complexities in preservation and revitalisation.
Awal Abdul
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Hearing Voices: Research and creative practice across cultures and disciplines

Language Documentation and Description, 2014
To date, I have done two projects with speakers of endangered languages in collaboration with linguists: one in Botswana and one in western Canada.
doaj   +2 more sources