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Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes, 2021
This study presents new data on Zamucoan ethnonymy and solves an etymological problem concerning the term Ayoreo. The earliest documented Zamucoan language is Old Zamuco, spoken in the 18th century in the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos and close to present-
Luca Ciucci
doaj   +1 more source

An Unpublished Inscription From the ʾAwām Sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah: New Evidence for a Royal mqtwy and Sabaean Campaigns in the ‘Land of the Abyssinians’

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 277-298, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib.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
wiley   +1 more source

‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 446-461, November 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

ETHNONYMS DESIGNATING TATARS IN JEWISH SOURCES OF THE 13th–19th CENTURIES AND THEIR MEANINGS IN THE CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение
Research Objectives: The aim of this article is to analyze the ethnonyms used in Jewish texts in relation to Tartars and some other groups of the Muslim population.
Akhiezer G.
doaj   +1 more source

The problem of ethnic ties between the Altai and West Siberian regions in the Middle Ages (based on ethnonymy, folklore and traditional culture)

open access: yesИсторическая этнология
The article examines the ethnonymy and folklore data preserved by modern Siberian and Altai Turks, which implies fairly active ethnic ties between the Altai and West Siberian regions. The great migration of peoples, founding Turkic state formations, then
Zaituna A. Tychinskikh
doaj   +1 more source

Personal names and denomination of Livonians in early written sources

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
This paper presents the timeline of ethnonyms denoting Livonians; specifies their chronology; and analyses the names used for this ethnos and possible personal names.
Enn Ernits
doaj   +1 more source

The Network Expression of a Roma Diaspora

open access: yesGlobal Networks, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite the longstanding debates among ethnographers and policymakers regarding the social organization of the Roma–the largest and most marginalized native ethnocultural minority in Europe–quantitative analyses are limited. This is partly due to a unique combination of social closure and spatial dispersion of most Roma groups, exacerbated by ...
Francisco J. Ogáyar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘The non‐dormant beast’: Antisemitism in communities of Russian nationalists on Vkontakte

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 361-377, April 2025.
Abstract The article explores the specifics of Russian antisemitic discourse of recent years using the example of three nationalist communities on Vkontakte, the most popular Russian social networking site, by means of critical discourse analysis. The main strategies they employ to frame the Jews online are stereotyping Jews as ungrateful and greedy ...
Petr Oskolkov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negative shift in the evaluation of an ethnonym: Hypothesis of contextual conditioning and measurement tools

open access: yesШаги
The article examines the hypothesis of contextual conditionality linking the assessment of an ethnonym with the context. The assumption that words with negative connotation gravitate towards negative contexts is tested.
E. S. Gromenko, M. A. Krongauz
doaj   +1 more source

“Çété méné endan Lalwizyann”: The role of Haiti in representations of Louisiana Creole language and identity

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2025.
Abstract Misconceptions about the ethnolinguistic relationship between Haiti and Louisiana persist to the present. Central to this debate is whether Louisiana Creole (LC) is a variety of French, an independent language, or a variant of the better‐known and more widely spoken Haitian Creole (HC). In this paper, I present data from residents of Louisiana
Nathan A. Wendte
wiley   +1 more source

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