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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The medieval forms and meanings of Francois: The political and cultural vicissitudes of an ethnonym [PDF]
, 2013 The article looks at the evolution of the ethnonym Francois in the Middle Ages and its significance to Germanic peoples known as Franks in the context of their cross-cultural relations with Muslim, Byzantine and British people.
Reis, Levilson C.
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, 2022 The Jadids, modernist Muslim intellectuals, emerged in Russian Turkistan after the Russian Revolution of 1905. Propagating sociocultural reformist projects through newspapers and journals, they challenged the status quo of the Muslim society under the ...
小松, 久男
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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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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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KNOWING THE HISTORY OF THE SEMANTIC CONTENT AND THE ESSENCE OF YOUR NATIONAL ETHNONYM IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR OF NATIONAL-CULTURAL SELF-DETERMINATION [PDF]
, 2015 The report contains the discussion on the essence and the semantic contents of the ethnonym “Turk” connected with the God Zeus and the “Turk” bull.
Jasur, Shodiev +2 more
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To the Iranian Etymology of the Ethnonyms Mari, Merya, Muroma
Вопросы ономастикиThe article continues the exploration of the ethnonym *märə, previously reconstructed by the author and A. V. Savelyev, as evidenced in the self-designation of the Mari people and in the names of Merya and Muroma found in Russian chronicles.
Vladimir V. Napolskikh
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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.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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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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Women’s Marital Surname Change by Bride’s Age and Jurisdiction of Residence: A Replication
Names, 2020 Hyphenating or keeping premarital surname for all U.S. destination brides marrying in Hawai’i in 2010 was highly, positively correlated with a state-level women’s income measure (r = .78, p < .000) and the analogous statistic for men (r = .64, p < .000),
Melanie MacEacheron
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