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Zapotec Language Activism And Talking Dictionaries [PDF]
, 2019 Online dictionaries have become a key tool for some indigenous communities to promote and preserve their languages, often in collaboration with linguists.
Fahringer, J. +3 more
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Chemchemi International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018 Kinship terms are culturally and socially tied to the society’s structure and communities’ values that have developed over a long period of time. In the different Kenyan social environments many kinship terms abound that are extremely definite and cannot ...
J. Wangia, Gerry Ayieko
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Droit et Cultures, 2017 Based on my research on trans-parenting in France and Quebec, I intend to analyse the terms used by children to address and name their father who became a woman.
Corinne Fortier
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Marking boundaries and identities: the precolonial expansion of segmentary societies in Southwestern Burkina Faso [PDF]
, 2006 Over approximately the last 200 years, north-west Ghana and large areas of neighbouring southern Burkina Faso were the stage for a highly successful expansion of Dagara-speaking peoples. Probably setting out from an area around Wa, small groups of Dagara
Kuba, Richard
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The Larrakia Kinship Terminology: Asymmetrical Cross‐Cousin Marriage and Omaha Skewing
Oceania, 2023 M. Harvey
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Semantic Features of Kinship Terminology in Modern Chinese Language
, 2018 Every nation has its own language, which shows its unique national features and peculiarities. It fully covers both spiritual and material world. And kinship terminology is a group of words which differs by its deep history, system structure and knowable
A. Z. Mukhamedsadykova
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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