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The Crucial and Contested Concept of the Endonym/Exonym Divide

Onomastica, 2021
Paul Woodman has called it the “great toponymic divide”, but the endonym/exonym distinction is not a concept confined solely to toponymy; it can be transferred to all name categories where the name used by insiders may differ from the name used by outsiders, for example, to ethnonyms, anthroponyms, names of institutions, where we frequently meet for ...
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Fractured selves, contested lands: Marlpa identity and the politics of native title

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 160-173, April 2026.
Abstract This article examines the constitution of marlpa identity in the Pilbara, emphasising the interplay between Aboriginal ontologies, kinship systems and the institutional frameworks of native title. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and oral histories, it argues that marlpa belonging is constituted through cognatic descent, consubstantial ...
Nayeli Torres‐Montenegro
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No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 85-103, March 2026.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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Hail to the thief: spectral egalitarianism in the Moroccan High Atlas Songez au voleur ! les spectres de l’égalitarisme dans le Haut‐Atlas marocain

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 104-120, March 2026.
This essay examines the spectres haunting ideas of egalitarianism among Tashelhiyt‐speaking communities in the Moroccan High Atlas: first, the tyrant, an obvious frontal threat to ideas of equality; and then the vastly more complex figure of the thief (amkhar).
Matthew Carey
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Toponymy in Focus. Review of the book: Barandeev, A. V. (Ed.). (2018). Voprosy geografii. Sb. 146. Aktualnye problemy toponimiki [Problems of Geography. 146. Topical Issues in Toponomastics]. Moscow: Codex. 312 p. [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2019
The review observes a new collection of studies devoted to the problems of Russian toponymy. Released under the authority of the Russian Geographical Society that keeps a constant focus on toponymy on the pages of its journal “Problems of Geography ...
Konstantin A. Gein
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Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 789-807, September 2025.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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Open Questions on Writing and the Use of Croatian Exonyms on Maps

Kartografija i Geoinformacije, 2019
Croatian exonyms are Croatian adapted names of foreign geographical features that differ from their original names (endonyms). The writing, use, and treatment of exonyms are not always unambiguous, unique, systematic, and consistent.
Ivana Crljenko
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Jejak Historis Eksonim Prancis di Pesisir Utara Papua dan Pulau-pulau di Sekitarnya

Majalah Geografi Indonesia
Abstrak. Prancis turut berkontribusi terhadap terbentuknya lanskap toponim (nama rupabumi) di pesisir utara Papua dan pulau-pulau di sekitarnya melalui aktivitas penjelajahan yang dilaksanakan pada abad ke-18 dan ke-19.
Albina Apriadsa, Bowo Susilo, Sudaryatno Sudaryatno   +2 more
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Mythogeographies of anthropological knowledge: writing over the lines and footsteps of history in Southwest China

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 808-829, September 2025.
In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
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Z dziejów kształtowania się normy przekładu toponimów

Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2016
Development of the Norm for Translating Croatian Toponyms Into Polish The article discusses factors that affect translation of Croatian toponyms into Polish in utility (non‑artistic) translation.
Katarzyna Wołek‑San Sebastian
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