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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes Virtual Reality (VR) and 360 film as promising fieldwork tools for addressing problematic temporalities in ethnographic museums and for collaborating with communities of origin. Focusing on the Maria Czaplicka Siberian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, we examine how previous methods of display marginalized the
Anya Gleizer +2 more
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Toponyms with the Stem баш/бас in Tuvan and Yakut languages: a lingvoculturological interpretation
Новые 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
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Plural Toponyms: When Place Names Coexist
EchoGéo, 2020 A branch of onomastics (the study of proper names) in linguistics, toponymy studies the origins, meanings and alterations of place names. In addition, this field involves a considerable amount of inventory work and classification in diverse contexts and ...
F. Giraut
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-33, February 2026.Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 34-69, February 2026.The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright +7 more
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Component land / lond in Old English Toponymy
Izvestiâ Ûžnogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta: Filologičeskie Nauki, 2019 The article is focused on the study of the linguistic unit land / lond as functioning in the toponymic system of Old English. The contextual examples of land-toponyms are drawn from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There is an attempt to reveal the role of the
Sergey V. Mukhin
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Approaches to disambiguating toponyms [PDF]
SIGSPATIAL Special, 2011 Many approaches have been proposed in recent years in the context of Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR), mostly in order to deal with geographically constrained information in un-structured texts. Most of these approaches share a common scheme: in order to disambiguate a toponym t with n ...
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Omni Geometry Representation Learning Versus Large Language Models for Geospatial Entity Resolution
Transactions in GIS, Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT The development, integration, and maintenance of geospatial databases rely heavily on efficient and accurate matching procedures of Geospatial Entity Resolution (ER). While resolution of points‐of‐interest (POIs) has been widely addressed, resolution of entities with diverse geometries has been largely overlooked.
Kalana Wijegunarathna +2 more
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Description linguistique en toponymie contrastive dans une base de données multilingue
Corela, 2005 The project to establish a multi-lingual database of toponyms and its associated purpose to compare exonyms through 10 languages has stressed the necessity to analyze the toponyms, in particular the analysis of complex toponyms of the different languages
Jonas Löfström +1 more
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Empty Justice: Ethnographic Court‐Witnessing in Authoritarian Times
Journal for the Anthropology of North America, Volume 29, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article investigates the operations of United States immigration courts ethnographically, examining how law, politics, and bureaucracy converge in the everyday production of immigration adjudication. Based on over 500 h of observation in 36 courtrooms across 11 immigration courts, we document how life‐altering deportation decisions—often ...
Amelia Frank‐Vitale +2 more
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