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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Methods and applications of text-driven toponym resolution with indirect supervision [PDF]
textThis thesis addresses the problem of toponym resolution. Given an ambiguous placename like Springfield in some natural language context, the task is to automatically predict the location on the earth's surface the author is referring to.
Speriosu, Michael Adrian
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Georeferenced toponym list from medieval Galician-Portuguese songbooks
<div> <p>Georeferenced toponym list from project Littera, a reseach projet developed by Instituto de Estudos Medievais of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.</p> <p><em> ...
Gonçalves, Nelson
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Hephyronyms in the structure of the Samarkand text
INTRODUCTION. Recently, the peripheral categories of onomastics have become the object of onomastic research, which include the name of the proper bridge – gephyronyms. This term is not noted in the most famous Dictionary of Russian Onomastic Terminology
Ye. V. Lipatova
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Money Laundering and Illegal Trafficking of Waste: Evidence From Italian Provinces
ABSTRACT Money laundering and waste‐related crimes are widely studied by the literature. However, little attention has been paid to the connection between the latter and the former. Using Italian data at the provincial level, the analysis presented here shows that waste‐related crimes also generate illegal proceeds that increase the flows of dirty ...
Emanuele Lucca +2 more
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Abstract This article examines how language and environment become constitutive through the emergent environmentalism of Hemshin youth returning to Turkey's Hemshin lands from major cities. As development transforms the landscape, young Hemshins engage in “reading” their lands, encountering linguistic and material traces like stories, place names, and ...
Neşe Kaya‐Özkan
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ABSTRACT Drawing on three ethnographic studies of secondary schools in England, this article makes a case for “socio‐technical audits”—a method combining technological walkthroughs with observations, workshops, and interviews—as part of ethnographic inquiry. A case example is presented to illustrate how the integration of socio‐technical audits enables
Louise Couceiro +2 more
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Learning From and Alongside Each Other: A Humanizing Approach to Team‐Based Ethnography
ABSTRACT Drawing from 7 years of team‐based ethnographic research with Hmong communities in Wisconsin, we—a multiethnic group of Asian American women—extend Paris and Winn's (2013) concept of humanizing research. We argue that relational care among research team members is central to sustaining humanizing practices.
Linda M. Pheng +3 more
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Toponym recognition on Turkish tweets
In recent years, Twitter has become a popular platform for following and spreading trends, news and ideas all over the world. Geographical scope of tweets is crucial to many tasks like disaster management, event tracking and information retrieval.
Onal, Kezban Dilek +5 more
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ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
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