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Ethnic Groups at ‘Critical Junctures’: The Laz vs. Kurds [PDF]

, 2012
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Sarigil, Z.
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Analysing Word-Formation Processes of Complex Words in Folk Poems and Songs in Kalhori Kurdish Language: Based on Samples form Analysing Ganjinehay-e Bar Bad-e Yad

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Kalehri Kurdish folk poems are among the valuable parts of the folk literature of Kurdish-speaking people in different regions of Kermanshah and Ilam. In these poems, many words have complex structures based on various lexical and musical considerations,
vahid sajjadifa , Nastaran Kasani
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A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
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'It used to be forbidden' : Kurdish women and the limits of gaining voice [PDF]

, 2018
Women’s rights and human rights projects in Turkey and elsewhere routinely construe and celebrate subaltern voice as an index of individual and collective empowerment.
Schäfers, Marlene
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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
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The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]

, 2016
Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
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Destan û Hikayeyên Gelêrî: Niqaş û Nirxandinek li ser Cureyên Edebiyata Kurdî ya Gelêrî

Nubihar Akademi
Mijara vê gotarê di çarçoveya niqaşên derbarê cureyê de nirxandina gengeşiya binavkirina “hikayeyên gelêrî” û “destan”ê ye di edebiyata kurdî ya gelêrî de. Mijara cureyan û binavkirina wan di nav xebatên folklorê de mijareke giring e.
Necat Keskin
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Metarepresentation, tense, aspect and narratives: the case of Behdini-Kurdish and Estonian [PDF]

, 2003
This paper looks at three sets of data, two from Behdini-Kurdish and one from Estonian, where a metarepresentational use analysis enhances the linguistic analysis of certain linguistic forms.
Unger, Christoph
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