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Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China
ABSTRACT This study examines emotional and material traces lingering in the aftermath of forced linguistic landscape transformations in Inner Mongolia following the implementation of a new assimilationist national language policy in 2022. Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic landscape data, the study specifically examines how the multilingual signs ...
Gegentuul Baioud
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Hatchery Salmon and Ecological Overshoot
ABSTRACT Is there an ecological niche for ‘ocean ranched’ hatchery salmon, Oncorhynchus spp., to supplement wild salmon? Ecologically, I hypothesize that the carrying capacity for biota is: (1) limited; (2) filled with locally adapted biota competing and cooperating to nurture viable offspring; and (3) sustained by the biogeochemical recycling of their
Benjamin William Van Alen
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Abstract This article argues that social actors' media ideologies about digital interfaces are key to the enregisterment of online activities. Focusing on an online register emergent from user activities around Year, Hare, Affair (YHA)—a state‐aligned Chinese animation—I explore how different metadiscourses evaluate this register by entextualizing ...
Jiarui Sun
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia
Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
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Thinking Through the Materiality of Big Data: An Outward‐Looking Approach to Data Infrastructure
Abstract This review paper advances a typology for research involving big data, highlighting a niche yet expanding scholarship on the provision and consumption of data infrastructure. By elucidating the epistemological underpinnings and analytical gaze of this strand of work, we conceptualise an outward‐looking approach to understanding data ...
Mengzhu Zhang +3 more
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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia
Abstract Anthropological studies of risk have long focused on how people respond to and aim to manage potential harm. But despite its long and important genealogy, this article suggests that risk can pose an analytic blind spot that potentially occludes other ways of understanding how people aim to live well in potentially harmful situations.
Joseph Bristley
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From Earth to Space and Back Again: A Story of Geophysics Told by 130 Years of AGU Article Titles
Abstract We present an analysis of the most frequent words in journal article titles published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), including articles of its first acquired journal Terrestrial Magnetism (and Atmospheric Physics) from the journal's inception in 1896, before AGU acquired it as Journal of Geophysical Research in 1959.
Paige Wooden
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Notes on Verbal Aspect in Three Vedic Prose Narratives
Abstract This article summarises the synchronic system of verbal aspect manifest in three Middle Vedic prose narrative texts, investigating the use of various morphological categories with past reference (especially the imperfect, perfect and aorist). I show that the imperfect and perfect are both compatible with multiple aspectual readings (perfective,
Anahita Gwenllian Hoose
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The present paper is a review of I. A. Poplavskaya’s monographic research devoted to the study of poetry and prose as two types of artistic merit and to the forms of their mutual influence and interaction exemplified by the works of V. A. Zhukovsky, A. S. Pushkin, M. Y. Lermontov, N. V. Gogol.
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Topical Issues of Strategic Planning and Audit in Modern Russia. [PDF]
Zolotareva AB, Sokolov IA.
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