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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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‘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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Hol van Abbázia?

Névtani Értesítő, 2019
Where is Abbázia? Results of a questionnaire survey on the use of Hungarian exonyms The paper attempts to examine the current use of exonyms in the Hungarian language based on a questionnaire survey.
ANDREA BÖLCSKEI , GÁBOR GERCSÁK , GÁBOR MIKESY   +2 more
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Slovenian geographical names

Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2020
This work discusses Slovenian geographical names: endonyms in Slovenia and in border areas inhabited by Slovenians in neighboring countries, and Slovenian exonyms used in Slovenian to describe geographical features outside the Slovenian settlement area ...
Drago Kladnik, Matjaž Geršič, Drago Perko   +2 more
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Ubiquitous place names Standardization and study in Indonesia

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2015
Place names play a vital role in human society. Names exist in all languages and place names are an indispensible part of international communication. This has been acknowledged by the establishment of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical ...
Allan F. Lauder, Multamia R.M.T. Lauder
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Should All Unofficial Placenames Be Eliminated?

Names, 2000
Placenames can only really fulfill their roles when they unambiguously identify the location of the places they designate. The development of new information technology makes this objective almost essential.
Henri Dorion
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“Marginal” Katoikonyms: From Occasional to Systematic Patterns [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2017
The paper discusses peripheral, or “marginal” katoikonyms (names of city inhabitants). Such names are formed either spontaneously, using productive formants, or following a pattern unusual for katoykonims, e.g.
Maria V. Akhmetova
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