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

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the digital humanities through the lens of Indigenous studies—or how to question the cultural blindness of our technologies and practices

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos

open access: yesSocial 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
wiley   +1 more source

Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

A finn exonima-adatbázis

open access: yesNévtani 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
doaj   +1 more source

Exonyms in Spanish. Criteria and usage in cartography

open access: yesAbstracts of the ICA, 2023

Sahagún Luis, Irene   +1 more
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Atlant and Slovene national consciousness in the second half of the 19th century

open access: yesActa Geographica Slovenica, 2006
The geographic literature made an important contribution to the development of national consciousness among Slovenes in the 19thcentury, as well as to the reinforcement of Slovene identity after Slovenia's independence in 1991.
Mimi Urbanc   +3 more
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Exonyms as parts of the cultural heritage

open access: yesOnoma, 2023
The article departs from the assumption that exonyms in the sense of place names not used by the local community and differing from the respective endonym are parts of the cultural heritage and deserve for this very reason to be protected, documented, and kept in use.
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