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Representations of Cold in the Folklore Picture of World of Yakuts
The idea of cold, reflected in the folklore picture of the world of the Yakuts is discussed in the article. The relevance of the work is due to the increased interest in the northern (Arctic) topic, in particular, to the issue of perception of cold by ...
A. A. Kuzmina
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Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
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
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ABSTRACT This article presents the 2024 Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, entitled ‘Contemporary Forms of Slavery as Affecting Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People’, and assesses the regime in England and Wales on the basis of the Rapporteur's recommendations.
Virginia Mantouvalou
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The aim of the study was to identify clinical and demographic characteristics of the trigeminal neuralgia in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), based on a retrospective and prospective analysis.
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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World
ABSTRACT This paper is devoted to the collections of old Sakha objects produced by Indigenous craftsmen in the north of the Russian Empire and now located in many museums around the world. For several centuries, objects representing Sakha material culture were taken away from their place of origin by explorers, scholars, collectors, and missionaries ...
Tatiana Argounova‐Low
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This paper presents how common definitional criteria for Indigenous Peoples – such as self‐identification and cultural distinctiveness – are often used selectively and fall short of recognising their collective land rights. Drawing on case studies, our paper argues that legal recognition of Indigenous land rights is essential for effective biodiversity
Ronju Ahammad +3 more
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Берестяные изделия в собрании Национального художественного музея Республики Саха (Якутия), выполненные в соответствии с канонами и художественным стилем, яркий показатель материальной и духовной культуры якутов.
Габышева, Ася Львовна
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The review summarizes the studies of the role of the FADS gene in the metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids, as one of the mechanisms of human adaptation to the environmental conditions, in particular, a cold climate.
T. M. Sivtseva +4 more
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Allele frequencies of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are variable among different populations; therefore the study of SNPs in ethnic groups is important for establishing the clinical significance of the screening of these polymorphisms.
Filipp Filippovich Vasilyev +4 more
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