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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
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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The origin of the reflexive prefix in Rgyalrong languages [PDF]

, 2010
International audienceIn the Sino-Tibetan family, reflexivity is either not expressed on the verb as in Chinese or Tibetan or expressed by means of a ‘middle' marker as in Dulong or Kiranti languages.
Jacques, Guillaume
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Virtually Shamans: An Anthropological Perspective on AI Chatbots

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 2, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the emerging relationship between humans and AI chatbots through the anthropological lens of shamanic practice, proposing the concept of “virtually shamans” to understand these digital interactions. Drawing on ethnographic traditions of studying magic, spirituality, and technological mediation, we argue that AI chatbot ...
Mark Friis Hau, Jakob Krause‐Jensen
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Locative Meanings of Words with ‘пурэбэ’ and ‘албэ’ Components in the Tundra Yukaghir Language

Philology. Theory & Practice, 2022
The aim of the study is to determine the semantic, structural and morphological features and functioning of nominal formations with the affix -бэ indicating the location: пурэбэ ‘upper part of something’ and албэ ‘lower part of something’. The scientific novelty is due to the fact that for the first time in the studies of the Yukaghir language, complex
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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 69-79, March 2025.
Abstract Anthropological studies of risk have long focused on how people respond to and aim to manage potential harm. But despite its long and important genealogy, this article suggests that risk can pose an analytic blind spot that potentially occludes other ways of understanding how people aim to live well in potentially harmful situations.
Joseph Bristley
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Nonverbal Clause Constructions

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
ABSTRACT There are about a dozen well‐recognised types of nonverbal clause constructions, but the terminology by which these subtypes are known varies widely. This paper gives an overview of the major types and defines each term carefully, from the perspective of general syntax.
Martin Haspelmath
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The Tundra Yukaghir Language in a Multilingual Environment

Journal of Language Contact
Abstract The article presents the results of a longitudinal study of the language situation in a multilingual village of Andryushkino (northeast of the Sakha Republic). It is one of two localities where the endangered Tundra Yukaghir (TY) language is still used. Data on TY proficiency were collected in this village by one of the authors in 1987 and
Maria Pupynina, Nikolai Vakhtin
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Verbal numeral classifiers in languages of Eastern Eurasia: A typological survey

Open Linguistics
This article presents a typological survey of verbal numeral classifiers (VNCs) in languages of Eastern Eurasia. As classifiers of occurrence (e.g., to V once, to V twice), VNCs are prevalent in languages of East Asia and Southeast Asia, yet the ...
Honkasalo Sami, Yurayong Chingduang
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ON THE ANCIENT ETYMONS СУГ(V)=, СУК(V)= IN THE TUNDRA DIALECT OF THE YUKAGHIR LANGUAGE [PDF]

Philology. Theory & Practice, 2018
In the article, the etymological analysis of a number of lexical units starting with the letter C in the Tundra dialect of the Yukaghir language, namely the words with the root elements суг(у)= , сук(у)= , is carried out. Attention is given to the nominative and significative functions of nouns, and the function of the qualitative affix.
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