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Reactions of survey respondents from Kosovska Mitrovica to ethnonyms as stimuli-words [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2013
Association is a psychological term which is becoming more and more important in linguistic theory. Psychologists regard association as a legitimate relationship between two or more mental processes (feelings, images, thoughts, emotions, movements ...
Miketić Sanja D.   +1 more
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Rus Dilinde Etnonimler: Biçimsel ve Anlamsal Özellikler

open access: yesDil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2019
Soy, kavim, topluluk, ulus gibi oluşumları adlandıran etnonimler, adbilim çerçevesinde oluşan etnonimi dalının araştırma nesnesidir. Etnonimler gerek art zamanlı gerekse eş zamanlı olarak incelenebilmektedir. Etnonimlerin art zamanlı incelenmesi günümüze
Olena Kozan
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Approaches to Research in Toponymy

open access: yesNames, 2015
There are two basic ways to conduct toponymic research — one concentrating on the etymology, meaning, and origin of toponyms, and one focusing on the toponyms of a region and examining patterns of these names.
Jan Tent
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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

open access: yesJournal 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

Uralist Aleksei Burõkin – ühe polühistori panus soome-ugri ja samojeedi rahvaste folkloori, etnoloogia ja keelte uurimisse [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused
The article gives an overview of the contribution of Alexey Burykin (1954–2021), doctor of philology and history, to the study of the languages, folklore and ethnology of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyed peoples.
Szilárd Tibor Tóth
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

open access: yesAmerican 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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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i

open access: yesMuseum 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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Learning ethnic nomenclature in the practice of fieldwork among Romani people in Poland

open access: yesRomani Studies
Over two decades of interpersonal, anthropological research within Romani communities in Poland, the authors have encountered a variety of linguistic practices reflecting self-definition `and identity.
MACIEJ WITKOWSKI, EWA NOWICKA
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