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Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Gendered Language and the Science of Colonial Silk [PDF]
This article uses pronominal resilience to suggest how we can identify women's contributions to the colonial silk industry. By comparing different editions of silkworm treatises, all of which were published between 1650-1655 and circulated within the ...
Allison Margaret Bigelow
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Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Partindo de diretrizes teórico-metodológicas da Historiografia Linguística (como a relação entre clima de opinião e produção linguística), o artigo reconstrói e interpreta abordagens da variação linguística, percebida e comentada por Fernão de Oliveira ...
Ronaldo de Oliveira Batista
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Dependency Treebanks of Ancient Greek Prose
This dataset is a collection of dependency syntax trees of representative texts from ancient Greek prose authors (Aeschines, Antiphon, Appian, Athenaeus, Demosthenes, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Herodotus, Josephus, Lysias, Plutarch, Polybius, Thucydides,
Vanessa B. Gorman
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For Never Was a Mazier Mystery Than That of Phoneme and Its History
The aim of the research is to study and systematize etymological, historical-linguistic and historiographic information about the terms fonema / phoneme / Phonem based on the results of the analysis of Russian, English and German theoretical and ...
A. V. Ivanov
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ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Geolinguistica, sociolinguistica e cronologia: le dimensioni del mutamento
This paper discusses the stages of linguistic historiography leading from the genealogical tree, where the linguistic change is conceived as a one-dimensional event (i.e., change through time), to the geolinguistic approach, providing a two-dimensional ...
Romano Lazzeroni
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Structuralist Legal Histories [PDF]
This is a contribution to a symposium titled Theorizing Contemporary Legal Thought.
Desautels-Stein, Justin
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