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Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity* Polyglossie ontologique : l'art de communiquer dans l'opacité

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 293-312, March 2026.
What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
wiley   +1 more source

Status of Dulguyak-Qadai in Tuvan Traditional Culture: Mid-19th to Early 21st Centuries

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2020
Goals. The article studies the socio-age group of dulguyak-qadai (Tuv. ‘old maid’), specific features of their status in traditional and contemporary Tuvan society.
Zoya Yu. Dorzhu, Lyudmila A. Dash
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
wiley   +1 more source

Ordinary Semantics of Bionym Orel and Ezir [Eagle] in Russian and Tuvan Language (Results of a Linguistic Experiment)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2023
The results of a comparative analysis of the everyday semantics of the bionym Orel and Ezir [Eagle] in the Russian and Tuvan languages are presented.
T. G. Rabenko, Ts. S.-B. Nurzet
doaj   +1 more source

Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
wiley   +1 more source

Total Energy Expenditure and Physical Activity Profiles Among Reindeer Herders and Office Workers of Northern Finland

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Biology, Volume 37, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives In the Arctic, climate change increases extreme weather events and unpredictability, affects food chains, increases transportational needs, and decreases physical activity (PA) and estimated total energy expenditure (eTEE). Thus, understanding how climate change affects inhabitants of different environments is increasingly important.
Ville Stenbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tuvan -daa in quantificational noun phrases: Existential or universal? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This paper characterizes the main functions of the Tuvan particle -daa and proposes a semantic analysis, focusing on its role in Quantificational NPs (QNPs), specifically its role in forming Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) and universal quantifiers.
Kirby, Ian L., Ian L. Kirby
core   +1 more source

Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 422-442, July 2025.
Abstract This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on ...
Sayana Namsaraeva, Vitaly Tsytsykov
wiley   +1 more source

Tuvan Throat Singing: Hoomey

open access: yes, 2022
Tuvans are today a Turkic people living in the autonomous Republic of Tuva, which is connected to the Russian Federation. The Republic of Tuva is located in the north of Mongolia in the South Siberia region.
ALTUNDAŞ, UĞUR
core  

Reconsidering ‘Classical’ versus ‘Recombinant’ Teleologies: a Case Study of Philip Glass's Piano Etude No. 6

open access: yesMusic Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 73-99, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In contrast to the teleological nature of Western art music, minimalism has long been purported to be ‘anti‐teleological’ (Meyer 1963) – that is, the latter lacks the goal‐directedness that Wim Mertens (1983) views as a defining feature of the former.
Hunter Hoyle
wiley   +1 more source

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