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Between identity and otherness. Stereotypical forms of ethnonyms
Proceedings of the International Conference on Onomastics "Name and Naming"., 2022 We aim to investigate ethnic names from an interdisciplinary perspective embracing not only an onomastic viewpoint, but also an ethnological, anthropological and sociological one.
M. Istrate
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.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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Gender &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
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ETHNONYMS BUKHARIANS AND SARTS IN THE ETNONIMIKON OF TOBOLSK PROVINCE OF XIX — EARLY XX CENTURY
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology, 2022 В ситуации глобального культурного нивелирования и повсеместных межэтнических конфликтов возникают задачи, связанные с формированием и сохранением национального самосознания как целого народа, так и отдельного человека.
Елена Ермакова +2 more
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On the Subject of Ethnonym “Oguz” Evolution into Ethnonym “Turk”
MGIMO Review of International Relations, 2012 .
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.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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Learning ethnic nomenclature in the practice of fieldwork among Romani people in Poland
Romani StudiesOver 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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Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo
Journal 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
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The ethnonyms expressed in the works ofAlisher Navo’i
The Language and Culture, 2022 This article is about the people of tribes, clans, nations used in the work of the great thinker Alisher Navoi. Including the names of people, it is also believed that ethnonyms are formed by the demands of the history and serve to convey the certain ...
Baxtiyor Abdushukurov
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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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