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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 92-113, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Language was never studied by linguists (or philologists) alone. The greater part of the languages of the world was first known in the West through the reports of missionaries, explorers, and colonial administrators, and what they documented reflected their specific interests.
Floris Solleveld
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Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2019 This article is based on the premise that an insightful reconstruction of the specific cultural world of American Indians allows a clearer, more in-depth understanding of North American history as a whole.
Raymond J. DeMallie, Gilles Havard
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Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2008 The article presents an ethnohistorical study of the ritual cleansing of the irrigation canals of the community of San Pedro de Huacos (province of Canta) located in the Centrals Peruvian Andes.Combining the fieldwork data collected on the current ...
Alexandra Carlier
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¿Qué significaba el término inka?
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2019 This article deals with referents and the signified of the term inka from the double perspective of history and linguistics. It shows that the Incas were not a nobility nor an ethnic group but a military association.
César Itier
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Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2019 This interdisciplinary study discusses the vernacular phytonyms and other ethnobiological aspects of vegetation in the Loptuq (Loplik) habitat on the Lower Tarim River.
Ingvar Svanberg +2 more
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Moussons, 2012 Prior to the religious reforms carried out by the Communists after they came to the power in 1975, the Phounoy–a small society in Northern Laos–used to perform various collective spirit cults.
Vanina Bouté
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, 2015 Ethnohistory is an interdisciplinary approach to indigenous, colonial, and postcolonial culture and history. Combining the approaches of history, cultural anthropology, and archaeology, ethnohistory has most often focused on the cultures and histories of the indigenous peoples of settler societies in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific ...
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Fort, Tower, or House? Building a Landscape of Settlement in the Shala Valley of High Albania
Internet Archaeology, 2010 This article presents the results of archaeological, (ethno-)historic, and ethnographic research in the Shala River valley of northern Albania. We argue that through time and in different periods of occupation - Middle Palaeolithic, Iron Age, Late ...
Michael L. Galaty +4 more
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Chiqui: etnohistoria de una creencia andina en el noroeste argentino
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2001 Chiqui was the bad luck; the belief and the ceremonies related to its propitiation were recorded in the Argentine northwestern region by the mid 19th Century and at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Margarita E. Gentile
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