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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar

Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 441-466, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
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An improved etymology for the Tupi-Guarani ethnonym Kagwahiva [PDF]

The present contribution challenges the traditional etymology of the well-known ethnonym kagwahiva, which goes back to the first decades of the 20th century.
Fernando O. de Carvalho, de Carvalho, Fernando O.   +1 more
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Representations of the Other in Duiliu Zamfirescu’s Viaţa la ţară [PDF]

Cultural Intertexts, 2014
An impressive number of articles, (monographic) studies, edited volumes and doctoral theses have already been written about the other/otherness/alterity, as concepts shared not only by literary criticism but also by numerous social sciences.
Floriana POPESCU
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No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 85-103, March 2026.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
wiley   +1 more source

On the Ethnonym «Even»

, 2020
The article describes the ethnonym of the word “Even”. It analyzes the concept of the ethnonym in the context of classical and contemporary theories of ethnogenesis.
Belolyubskiy, Grigory D., Белолюбский, Г.Д.   +1 more
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 240-256, March 2026.
Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Tunka Buryats in the 19th century: ethnic composition and settlement

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2017
The article deals with a study of ethnic composition of the Tunka Buryats and features of their settlement on the territory of the former Tunkinskaya Steppe Duma, which was split into four parts called Torskaya, Koimorskaya, Kharibyatskaya indigenous ...
Nanzatov B.Z., Sodnompilova M.M.
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Associative Field of Ethnonym-Stimulus ‘Teleuts’ in Ethnic Self-Identification Modeling of Bachat Teleuts

Научный диалог, 2022
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, N. V. Rabkina, A. P. Kartavtseva   +2 more
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.
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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