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Ethnonyms in Russian and Polish lexicographical works
, 2014 Leonarda Dacewicz, BiałystokComparative analysis of Russian and Polish ethnonyms shows both similarities and distinctions of lexical strata in these cognate Slavic languages.
Dacewicz, Leonarda
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Approaches to Research in Toponymy
Names, 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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On the Etymology of the Ethnonym Katukina [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Línguas Indígenas, 2020 The present paper proposes an etymology for the troublesome ethnonym , used, for over a century, to designate a series of western Amazonian indigenous groups. I propose that the term originates in a Purus Arawakan denominal monovalent predicate (“adjective”) *ka-tukanɨ , meaning “speaker of an indigenous language”.
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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
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Uralist Aleksei Burõkin – ühe polühistori panus soome-ugri ja samojeedi rahvaste folkloori, etnoloogia ja keelte uurimisse [PDF]
MäetagusedThe 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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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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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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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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HOMONYMY OF ETHNONYMS IN UZBEK FOLK PAREMS
, 2021 This article discusses the homonymy of ethnonyms in Uzbek folk parerams.Ethnolinguistic issues related to the concept of language and culture, which arecurrently attracting the attention of everyone in linguistics, have been studiedby most linguists, but
Ubaydullaevna Yulduz Nurova
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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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