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Inner-city development experiences of Germany: Lessons for Pakistan, Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda in urban development

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2023
Inner-city development is a key part of urban development strategies in Germany for sustainable urban development. Using comparative urbanism as a methodological and theoretical lens, this review paper reflects on Germany’s experiences with inner-city ...
Mohammed Abubakari   +4 more
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Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia [PDF]

open access: yesHistory of Science in South Asia, 2017
Wild and diverse outcomes are associated with transmutational practices: the prolongation of life, the recovery of youth, the cure of diseases, invincibility, immortality, enlightenment, liberation from the cycle of rebirths, and unending bliss.
Dagmar Wujastyk   +2 more
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A new study of Tengriism of the peoples of Inner Asia

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2015
A review to N.V. Abaev “Archaic forms of religion and Tengriism in ethnoculturogenesys of the peoples of Inner Asia” (Ulan-Ude: BSU Publications, 2015).
Yuri I. Skuratov
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Photographing Central Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The volume demonstrates that photography was the cornerstone of imperial media governance and discourse construction in colonial Turkestan of the tsarist and early Soviet periods. The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that

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The Development, Preservation and Loss of Differential Case Marking in Inner Asia Minor Greek [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In Cappadocian and Pharasiot, the two main members of the inner Asia Minor Greek dialect group, the head nouns of NPs found in certain syntactic positions are marked with the accusative if the relevant NPs are definite and with the nominative if the NPs ...
Karatsareas, P.
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The «bone» version of the anthropomorphic model in the traditional worldview of the Turko-Mongols of Inner Asia: images, meaning, functions [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2020
The human body, its structure, appears as a universal model of the structure of the world around us and the society. Through the anatomical code, the Universal chaos is set in order, structures arise, hierarchies are established.
Sodnompilova M.M. , Nanzatov B.Z.
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On a Particular Aspect of the Identification of Tibetan Xylographs: Preliminary Remarks on the Importance of Craftsmen

open access: yesKervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2017
This essay briefly discusses the early history of Tibetan printing by comparing some facets of this subject with the European phenomenon. Printing started to be a means of dissemination of texts in Tibet and Europe at roughly the same time.
Michela Clemente
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REGIONAL ORDER AND TRANSFORMATION OF WATER REGIME IN CONTEMPORARY INNER ASIA

open access: yesСравнительная политика, 2019
This paper is a study of water-sharing disputes in Inner Asia. The focal point is the issue of fresh water-sharing in the conditions of regional post-Soviet political order. The article is an attempt to verify a hypothesis: is there a correlation between
A. V. Mikhalev
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The Secret History of the Mongols: Open Space Terms in the Context of Historical Geography. Images and Localization

open access: yesМонголоведение, 2020
Goals. The paper aims to reveal open space-related toponyms traced in The Secret History of the Mongols, and localize the sites. Materials. Investigation of spaces once reclaimed by Mongolic peoples is quite a topical issue in the history of nomadic ...
Marina M. Sodnompilova
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The Secret History of the Mongols (Mongγol-un niγuča tobčiyan): Orographic Objects in the Context of Inner Asian Historical Geography

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2020
Introduction. Investigation of the space once invaded and reclaimed by the Mongolic peoples is one of the pressing problems in the history of nomadic societies. Goals.
Marina M. Sodnompilova
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