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Rethinking 'cattle cults' in early Egypt: Towards a prehistoric perspective on the Narmer Palette [PDF]

, 2008
The Narmer Palette occupies a key position in our understanding of the transition from Predynastic to Dynastic culture in Egypt. Previous interpretations have focused largely upon correspondences between its decorative content and later conventions of ...
Wengrow, D
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Patrium amnem: the image of the Nile in Roman art and literature in the late 1st century AD

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2022
The image of the Nile, formed by Roman authors in the literature of the Flavian era, is compared to the so-called Nilotic scenes embodying a specifically expressed interest in Egyptian culture.
M. S. Chistalev
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Creating an independent traditional court:A study of Jopadhola clan courts in Uganda [PDF]

, 2012
This article examines the contribution of clans (kinship institutions) to the administration of justice within the context of standards set out in the African regional human rights instruments. Field work on the Jopadhola of Eastern Uganda is drawn upon,
Owor, Maureen
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Pictorial Workshops in Pompeii. Exploring some Roman Nilotic Paintings

Zephyrus, 2023
From the 3rd century BP onwards, the relationship between Egypt and Rome grew clearer. When the treaty of amicitiawas signed in the year 273 BP, the political, cultural, economic and religious impact on Italian territory was increasingly evident. Also of
Eleonora Voltan
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'High gods' among some Nilotic peoples [PDF]

Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 1997
Godfrey R. Lienhardt
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Dependent clauses with the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’ in Dinka

Afrika und Übersee, 2023
Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a construction in which a clause with dependent syntactic status is combined with a preceding clause of any type by means of the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’, which is also used for coordinating both noun phrases and ...
Torben Andersen
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Kurmuk phonology

Studies in African Linguistics, 2007
This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Kurmuk, a previously undescribed language belonging to the Northern Burun subbranch of the Western Nilotic family.
Torben Andersen
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Keeping in Touch via Cassette: Tracing Dinka Songs from Cattle Camp to Transnational Audio-Letter [PDF]

, 2013
This paper explores Dinka songs as poetic autobiography, focusing in particular on their composition and circulation as audio-letters between South Sudan and the global Dinka diaspora.
Impey, Angela
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Cushitic loans in South Nilotic revisited

Afrika und Übersee
This article explores lexical contact between Cushitic and Nilotic taking the proposed Cushitic language Proto Baz as point of departure. Proto Baz is a putative East Cushitic language proposed by Heine, Rottland & Vossen (1979), on the basis of words ...
Maarten Mous, Christian Rapold
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Downstep in Pari the tone system of a western Nilotic language

Studies in African Linguistics, 1988
Pari, a Western Nilotic language, has a terraced-level tone system with total downstep. Although Pari could be analyzed as having three basic tone levels and automatic downstep, there is morphological evidence that it has two basic tone levels and non ...
Torben Andersen
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