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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
wiley   +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An Unpublished Inscription From the ʾAwām Sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah: New Evidence for a Royal mqtwy and Sabaean Campaigns in the ‘Land of the Abyssinians’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ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib.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

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

‘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

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

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

‘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

Ethnonymics as a Historical and Philological Discipline: General and Specific Solutions, Chance and Pattern

open access: yesВопросы ономастики
This article addresses key methodological issues in the study of ethnonymy, focusing on new hypotheses on the origins of Finno-Ugric ethnonyms. The singular nature of ethnonyms, and the apparent lack of opportunity for statistical validation of ...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Napolskikh
doaj   +1 more source

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