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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Matter in Motion: A Dogon Kanaga Mask

Religions, 2018
Dogon masks have been famous for a long time—and none more so than the kanaga mask, the so-called croix de Lorraine. A host of interpretations of this particular mask circulate in the literature, ranging from moderately exotic to extremely exotic ...
Walter E. A. van Beek
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Boston University Symphony Orchestra, February 28, 2000 [PDF]

, 2000
This is the concert program of the Boston University Symphony Orchestra performance on Monday, February 28, 2000 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Symphony No. 38 in D major "Prague," K.
School of Music, Boston University
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Letter from John Astleford to Friends April 24, 1947

, 1947
This letter is mostly about the funeral of R.
George Fox University Archives
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Death as a Fateful Moment? The Reflexive Individual and Scottish Funeral Practices [PDF]

Death is considered by some commentators to be problematic for the inhabitants of a late modern era, so that when individuals are confronted by death they revert to using traditional institutions and practices.
Gleny Caswell
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Evaluasi Kebijakan Pengelolaan Pemakaman Di Kota Semarang ( Studi Kasus Pengelolaan Tpu Bergota Tahun 2012) [PDF]

, 2013
The title of this thesis is the Cemetery Management Policy Evaluation in the city of Semarang (Parks Cemetery Management Case Study Bergota Year 2012).
N, Z. A. (Zanuari)
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Upon Meeting the Ancestors: the Hmong Funeral Ritual in Asia and Australia [PDF]

Hmong Studies Journal, 1996
This paper will describe how the text affects its own telling at a specific moment in the death rites of the Hmong people, drawing chronologically on seven accounts dating from the 1890s to 1992 and ranging geographically from southern China to Thailand,
Catherine Falk
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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