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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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Exonyms in Spanish. Criteria and usage in cartography

Abstracts of the ICA, 2023

Sahagún Luis, Irene, Alonso Tagle, Bárbara   +1 more
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The Open Gazetteer of EuroGeographics and Exonyms

Abstracts of the ICA, 2022

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Exonyms as parts of the cultural heritage

Onoma, 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

TOWARDS A PRACTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF EXONYMS

Lege artis Language yesterday today tomorrow, 2022
The present study examines the phenomenon of exonymy in names of countries. Eleven major types of exonyms have been identified, ranging from near-endonyms to unrelated exonyms. The classification has been tested on names of twenty countries in five languages, which have been subject to contrastive analysis.
openaire   +1 more source

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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