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Another look at ‘Khoikhoi’ and related ethnonyms
Acta Academica, 2011 The nomadic pastoralists formerly called “Hottentots” are today known as the Khoikhoi, a term also encountered as Khoekhoe, often abbreviated as Khoe.
Peter E. Raper
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The Declension of Ethnonyms in English
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1995 Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 397-412, February 2025.Abstract This paper explores the role of Indigenous and queer embodiment in understanding the current limitations of sociotechnical systems as they relate to cultural heritage institutions. Through the utilization of a critical case study the paper highlights the ways in which the ideologies of colonialism and cisnormativity render Indigenous and queer
Travis L. Wagner +2 more
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Learning to walk in the forest
Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 401-420, September 2024.Abstract This paper examines how BaYaka children from the Congo Basin learn to “walk in the forest” (botamboli na ndima). Specifically, after placing forest walking within historical and ethnographic context, we consider how this practice contributes to BaYaka motor, cognitive, and social development, and thus, to the acquisition of culture.
Sheina Lew‐Levy, Adam H. Boyette
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Slovene, 2014 This article deals with the usage and combinability of words from the synonymic rows Rusʹ/Rossiia/Russiia, russkii/rossiiskii/rosskii, and russkie/rossiiane/rossy, on the basis of the Catalogue of the Kievan Metropolitans, from the early 18th c.—a little-
Alexander I. Grishchenko
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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Russian Language StudiesThe relevance of this study is related to the linguistic-cultural potential of vocabulary with an ethnic meaning, having complex systemic characteristics and implicit culturally marked content, that should be included in teaching Russian to foreign ...
Galina M. Vasileva, Ruichen Dai
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 243-264, August 2024.Abstract When the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was passed in 1990, it marked an important shift in relations between tribal communities and non‐tribal museums in the United States. By listening to how different speakers at the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office talk about repatriation and reclamation, we can see that ...
Hannah McElgunn
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Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia, 2017 In the article I have attempted to check, how is the influence of monolingual lexicography on ethnical stereotypes. The goal is to answer the question of how lexicography might contribute to strengthening ethnical stereotypes.
Joanna Szczęk
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The Shibans: A Failed Ethnonym [PDF]
Golden Horde Review, 2019 Objective: To study the historical circumstances of the emergence in the 15th century Dašt-i Kipchak of a politonym, Shibans, and to define the circumstances which have prevented its successful transformation into an ethnonym. Research materials: This article is based on the works of Central Asian, Persian and European authors of the 15th–17th ...
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