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The Textual Construction of North American Indigenous Peoples in the Account of Cook's Third Voyage

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 463-485, December 2022., 2022
Abstract By foregrounding the stratification of cultural agencies underlying the text, this article analyses the conceptualization of human otherness in the official account of James Cook's third voyage, published in 1784. The close reading focuses on the case study of indigenous people encountered during Cook's journey up the west coast of North ...
Giulia Iannuzzi
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Revisiting the digital humanities through the lens of Indigenous studies—or how to question the cultural blindness of our technologies and practices

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 333-344, February 2022., 2022
Abstract This article examines the benefits of putting Indigenous perspectives and the digital humanities (DH) in conversation with each other in order to elaborate a DH approach that is suitable for Indigenous research and to suggest critical perspectives for a more sustainable DH.
Coppélie Cocq
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Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos

Social Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 763-777, August 2021., 2021
Hat Ang, mythological culture hero of the Phong (an ethnic minority in Laos), exemplifies the figure of the upland pioneer. Taking the legend of Hat Ang as a vantage point, this paper discusses the ethnohistory of this specific Austroasiatic group and offers a mythological perspective into the discussion of uplanders’ agency and future‐making. This key
Oliver Tappe
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The Life of Slovenian Exonyms and Their Familiarity in the Professional Community

Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2012
This article examines the lifecycle of Slovenian exonyms in which the characteristic stages are the creation of an exonym, its increasingly frequent use, its frequent and general use, its increasingly rarer use or dying out, death, and being forgotten ...
Drago Kladnik, David Bole
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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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‘Qu'il est question d'une langue sauvage’: Phrasebooks for European Travellers in Eighteenth‐Century North America

History, Volume 106, Issue 371, Page 356-383, July 2021., 2021
Abstract This article explores the vocabularies of Amerindian languages published as part of the travel accounts written by explorers, traders and colonial policymakers in North America over the eighteenth century. Starting with the renowned Voyages by the Baron de Lahontan, the analysis takes as its endpoint the journals of the famous expedition led ...
Giulia Iannuzzi
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A finn exonima-adatbázis

Névtani Értesítő, 2021
The Finnish database of exonyms In Finland, a detailed, regularly updated and complex searchable database of exonyms has been available on the website of the Institute for the Languages of Finland since 2018.
GÁBOR MIKESY
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Au-delà des ethnonymes. À propos de quelques exonymes et endonymes chez les musulmans du Cambodge

Moussons, 2012
Scholarship on Muslims of Indochinese Peninsula—from the colonial period to nowadays—has often gone hand in glove with Cham research. Perceived as a unified and reduced unit, the small community of Cambodian Muslims is today more than ever described as ...
Emiko Stock
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L’intégration des exonymes à la langue vietnamienne ou quand l’usage d’Internet force la normalisation

Moussons, 2015
The Vietnamese national language (quốc ngữ), in use today, uses the Latin script. Albeit the Romanized script of the quốc ngữ seems fitted to the use of the Internet on a large extent, for many of them, Vietnamese users seem lost when looking for foreign
Philippe Le Failler
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The “Paris School” and the “Structuralist Invasion” in North America

Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2020
This essay offers some broader contextualization on the role of “structuralism” in North America and its relationship to the works of scholars who have been broadly classified under the exonym “Paris School” including Jean-Pierre Vernant, Marcel Detienne,
Charles H. Stocking
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