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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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The theme of belonging to the Tatar people in the works of Bekir Choban-zade [PDF]
The works of the outstanding Crimean Tatar poet and scholar Bekir Choban-zade are increasingly attracting the attention of researchers. The poet paid great attention to the theme of “Tatarlyk” in his works – belonging to the Tatar people, this ethnonym ...
Seyran Suleymanov, Ayder Emirov
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The purpose of the paper is to give an overview of phraseological means incorporating ethnic allusions in the framework of the Spanish world model as a whole and in professional activities in particular.
O. S. Chesnokova
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The ethnic component, represented in the linguistic consciousness of the teleuts, a small indigenous people living on the territory of the Kemerovo region — Kuzbass, is considered.
V. A. Kameneva +2 more
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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
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ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
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Sobre el etnónimo de los gálatas (y de los celtas)
Some of the traditional explanations for the name of the Celtae have no typological paralell at all. The old name of the Celtae could be well preserved in the ethnonym Galatai, which could be explained as *gala- ´end, limit, border´ and *tai `those, they´
Xaverio Ballester
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Introduction. Kazakhs are a Turkic people dominant in present-day Republic of Kazakhstan. The former also reside in adjacent territories of China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Turkey.
Narmandakh Gombyn
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‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED
Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’.
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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Au-delà des ethnonymes. À propos de quelques exonymes et endonymes chez les musulmans du Cambodge
Scholarship on Muslims of Indochinese Peninsula—from the colonial period to nowadays—has often gone hand in glove with Cham research. Perceived as a unified and reduced unit, the small community of Cambodian Muslims is today more than ever described as ...
Emiko Stock
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