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Annual Review of Anthropology, 2015
Siberia is a vast and varied region, linked horizontally to the circumpolar Arctic and vertically to Mongolia and Central Asia. Nineteenth-century anthropological fieldwork was important abroad, particularly in America. From the 1920 to 1980s, Siberia was almost totally isolated from outside research and from comparative anthropology.
Piers Vitebsky, Anatoly Alekseyev
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Siberia is a vast and varied region, linked horizontally to the circumpolar Arctic and vertically to Mongolia and Central Asia. Nineteenth-century anthropological fieldwork was important abroad, particularly in America. From the 1920 to 1980s, Siberia was almost totally isolated from outside research and from comparative anthropology.
Piers Vitebsky, Anatoly Alekseyev
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Language and Linguistics Compass, 2009
Abstract Although Russian today is the dominant language in virtually every corner of North Asia, Siberia and the Northern Pacific Rim of Asia remain home to over three dozen mutually unintelligible indigenous language varieties. Except for Tuvan, Buryat, and Yakut, most are rapidly losing ground to Russian if not already critically ...
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Abstract Although Russian today is the dominant language in virtually every corner of North Asia, Siberia and the Northern Pacific Rim of Asia remain home to over three dozen mutually unintelligible indigenous language varieties. Except for Tuvan, Buryat, and Yakut, most are rapidly losing ground to Russian if not already critically ...
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The SIBERIA and SIBERIA-II projects: an overview
SPIE Proceedings, 2003The international EU-funded SIBERIA project (1998-2000) aimed at the production of an extensive forest map using spaceborne SAR data acquired by the ERS and JERS satellites. For a large geographical region (900.000 km2) located in the Central Siberian Plateau, one-day ERS coherence and JERS backscatter were used to retrieve growing stock volume.
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Experiment, 2018
Abstract A growing dissatisfaction with second-rate status, i.e. with the ideological stigma of being Jewish, brought many personal changes. For my husband and me, for example, the decision to move to Siberia, where, thanks to geographical remoteness, the rules were less stringent, granted us a respite and a chance to overcome the boundaries of ...
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Abstract A growing dissatisfaction with second-rate status, i.e. with the ideological stigma of being Jewish, brought many personal changes. For my husband and me, for example, the decision to move to Siberia, where, thanks to geographical remoteness, the rules were less stringent, granted us a respite and a chance to overcome the boundaries of ...
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2012
An American oil driller at Yenangyaung once said the same thing to U Pu, a member of Ba Maw's Freedom Bloc in the pre-war Burmese legislature. Burma's first premier was Dr. Ba Maw, a European-educated lawyer and, in the words of one British writer, 'a man of immense vanity who looked and behaved like a film-star', who had come into prominence as the ...
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An American oil driller at Yenangyaung once said the same thing to U Pu, a member of Ba Maw's Freedom Bloc in the pre-war Burmese legislature. Burma's first premier was Dr. Ba Maw, a European-educated lawyer and, in the words of one British writer, 'a man of immense vanity who looked and behaved like a film-star', who had come into prominence as the ...
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Wildfire Intensity and Fire Emissions in Siberia
Fire, 2023Ponomarev Evgenii, Tatiana Ponomareva
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