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Aspects of number in the Papuan outliers of East Nusantara [PDF]
Handout from a paper presented at the International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Bali, July 2-6, 2012.The East Nusantara region is home to two distinct groups of Papuan languages spoken far from the New Guinea mainland and surrounded by ...
Holton, Gary
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To the Iranian Etymology of the Ethnonyms Mari, Merya, Muroma
The article continues the exploration of the ethnonym *märə, previously reconstructed by the author and A. V. Savelyev, as evidenced in the self-designation of the Mari people and in the names of Merya and Muroma found in Russian chronicles.
V. Napolskikh
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Abstract This article examines how the threat of eviction by a transnational land deal in coastal Tanzania shaped competing narratives with which longtime residents and migrants defended and legitimated the moral economy of land: a widely shared customary norm that land belonged to those who cleared, occupied, and used it continuously for their daily ...
Youjin B. Chung
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A comprehensive review of HVS‐I mitochondrial DNA variation of 19 Iranian populations
Abstract Iran is located along the Central Asian corridor, a natural artery that has served as a cross‐continental route since the first anatomically modern human populations migrated out of Africa. We compiled and reanalyzed the HVS‐I (hypervariable segment‐I) of 3840 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from 19 Iranian populations and from 26 groups ...
Motahareh Amjadi +4 more
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Notes on some of the ethnonyms in the Veneranda dies
The article deals with some of the ethnonyms mentioned in the Veneranda dies, proposing some identifications for the names “Daci” and “Romani” that have not hitherto been considered.
Carlo Pulsoni
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Fractures of the Whole : A Depiction of the shamanic universe on Kača drums brought by J.J. Sederholm from Siberia in 1917 [PDF]
This paper is a brief description of two drums brought by Finnish geologist Jacob Johannes Sederholm from the expedition to Siberia in 1917. Research on drums, based on the ethnographical sources and museum collections, was done to identify provenance of
Peemot, Victoria
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Ethnonyms in “On a Chinese screen” by W.S. Maugham: a lexical and corpus-based analysis
In the article the topic about the recreation of ethno-cultural information based on linguistic and corpus analysis of the work of the famous classical British writer S.
L. Yang +2 more
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Abstract The loss and degradation of forests and other ecosystems worldwide threaten both global biodiversity and the livelihoods of people who use natural resources. Understanding how natural resource use impacts landscape provisioning services for both people and wildlife is thus critical for designing comprehensive resource management strategies. We
Katherine J. Kling +15 more
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Another look at ‘Khoikhoi’ and related ethnonyms
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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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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