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An etymology for Galiyao [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Argues for an alternate etymology for the name Galiyao, referring to Pantar Island, originating in the term Gale Awa, from the Western Pantar ...
Holton, Gary
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Conversion in Turkish : an overview [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper presents an overview of possible cases of conversion in Turkish. I argue that apparent cases of conversion between nouns and adjectives are cases of syntactic transposition, and apparent cases of conversion between nouns/adjectives and verbs ...
Anward Jan   +57 more
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Managing death in exile

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in
Sealing Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

A Plant‐Diversity Dark Spot at the Intersection of Three Biodiversity Hotspots: Environmental Drivers of Brassicaceae Richness in Türkiye

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
Türkiye lies at the intersection of three global biodiversity hotspots yet is recognised as a global plant‐diversity "dark spot." Using > 15,000 georeferenced herbarium records and spatial regression models, we examined the environmental drivers of Brassicaceae species and endemic richness across the country. Species richness increased with topographic
İlayda Dumlupınar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Onomastic Need to Rename Gender-derogatory Toponyms: A South African Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This article explores the onomastic necessity of renaming gender-derogatory toponyms in the South African landscape. It contends that there is a need to interrogate the reasons behind gender-derogatory names and how society relates to these names.
Dolly Maleka Makweya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cuentos (In)Creíbles: Ethnography as Faithful Witnessing for Transborder Epistemologies

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Through the careful analysis of the border‐crossing epistemologies that are collaboratively shared and validated by a fifth grader and ethnographer in liminal classroom spaces, we identify key methodological approaches for researchers working with border crossers to document the co‐production of knowledge among researchers and participants, to
Sarah Gallo, Melissa Adams Corral
wiley   +1 more source

Toponyms with the Stem баш/бас in Tuvan and Yakut languages: a lingvoculturological interpretation

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2018
Studying Turkic geographical names is a way to reveal their common and characteristic features in linguistics, culture, and history. A common denominator might be a simple concurrence of the semantics of stems (apellatives) in toponyms.
Egor R. Nikolaev
doaj   +1 more source

LocLinkVis: A Geographic Information Retrieval-Based System for Large-Scale Exploratory Search [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper we present LocLinkVis (Locate-Link-Visualize); a system which supports exploratory information access to a document collection based on geo-referencing and visualization.
Claros, Rosa Merino   +2 more
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Fingalian topographies: Ossian and the Highland Tour 1760-1805 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
If Ossian validated the Highland landscape for eighteenth-century tourists, the landscape, in turn, seemed to authenticate poems whose authenticity never ceased to be doubted; but text and topography alike ran the risk of dissolving into insubstantiality.
Leask, Nigel
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On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology: The Promise of “Sequential” and “Unrestrained” Perspectives for Unsettling Representation

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 130-147, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Graphic anthropology has grown to become a distinctive subfield at the intersection of anthropology of drawing, visual anthropology, and multimodal approaches to social research. We assess this development and identify two emerging styles of graphic anthropological practice.
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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