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Author : Marian Klamer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783944675947

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The Alor-Pantar languages by Marian Klamer Pdf

The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Pa\-puan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern Indonesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are under pressure from the local Malay variety as well as the national language, Indonesian. This volume studies the internal and external linguistic history of this interesting group, and showcases some of its unique typological features, such as the preference to index the transitive patient-like argument on the verb but not the agent-like one; the extreme variety in morphological alignment patterns; the use of plural number words; the existence of quinary numeral systems; the elaborate spatial deictic systems involving an elevation component; and the great variation exhibited in their kinship systems. Unlike many other Papuan languages, Alor-Pantar languages do not exhibit clause-chaining, do not have switch reference systems, never suffix subject indexes to verbs, do not mark gender, but do encode clusivity in their pronominal systems. Indeed, apart from a broadly similar head-final syntactic profile, there is little else that the Alor-Pantar languages share with Papuan languages spoken in other regions. While all of them show some traces of contact with Austronesian languages, in general, borrowing from Austronesian has not been intense, and contact with Malay and Indonesian is a relatively recent phenomenon in most of the Alor-Pantar region. This is the second edition of the volume that was originally published in 2014. In this edition, typographical errors have been corrected, small textual improvements have been implemented, broken URL links repaired or removed, and references updated. The overall content of the chapters has not been changed.

Author : Shetler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004492349

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Telling Our Own Stories by Shetler Pdf

In this collection of ethnic group histories, written by authors from the Mara Region of Tanzania, local people tell their stories as a way to inspire development that builds on the strengths of the past. It combines histories from the small, but closely related, ethnic groups of Ikizu, Sizaki, Ikoma, Ngoreme, Nata, Ishenyi and Tatoga in South Mara, east of Lake Victoria and west of Serengeti National Park. Many of the authors compiled their stories by meeting with groups of elders. They were concerned to preserve history for the next generation who had not taken the time to learn the stories orally. The stories were written in Swahili and translated into English with annotations and an introduction so that readers not familiar with this region might also share in the experience. It also includes transcriptions of oral interviews with some of the same stories to get a sense of the ongoing conversions about the past. This collection makes local history told in a local idiom accessible to students of African history interested in social memory and the creation of ethnicity.

Author : Nils Magnus Holmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Dhungutti language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000283023

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An Attempt Towards a Comparative Grammar of Two Australian Languages by Nils Magnus Holmer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : NWU:35556005233044

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Occasional Papers in Aboriginal Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : L B Machobane,Stephan Karschay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349209064

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Government and Change in Lesotho, 1800–1966 by L B Machobane,Stephan Karschay Pdf

This study of political institutions provides an objective appraisal of the precolonial institutions of the Basotho before colonial rule in 1868. It appraizes the impact of colonial rule on the old political structure, the introduction of new institutions and the development of new perceptions.

Author : LJ Uyo
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781543771909

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Tekna' Aban Balan by LJ Uyo Pdf

Tekna' Aban Balan is a great love story told in the poetic form in the Kayan language. It is the story of Balan Lejau, an aristocrat whose beautiful second wife was kidnapped by two people from another world because of her great beauty. Now a widower a second time, Balan Lejau became very depressed at not being able to bury his dead and refused to eat until he became emaciated with sunken eyes. After being told she was still alive however in another world, he recovered his strength and set about to recover her. He made a magical ladder from blow pipe darts to reach the sky. As a high ranking aristocrat who Kayans believed are descended from the spirit world as described in their story of the Tree of Life, he was able to enter to search for her. He overcame several challenges he never encountered on earth and seduced all the wives of the warriors that had left them to tend to their farms. The story ended with a fierce battle between Balan Lejau and the two men that had kidnapped his wife. He defeated them both and brought back their heads back as trophy to his longhouse.

Author : Eric Burton,Anne Dietrich,Immanuel Harisch,Marcia Schenck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110623826

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Navigating Socialist Encounters by Eric Burton,Anne Dietrich,Immanuel Harisch,Marcia Schenck Pdf

This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on personal and institutional agency, cultural cross-fertilization, migration, development, and solidarity.

Author : Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110692471

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Imagining Southern Spaces by Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar Pdf

Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces ́investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country.

Author : James Mark,Bogdan C. Iacob,Tobias Rupprecht,Ljubica Spaskovska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427005

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1989 by James Mark,Bogdan C. Iacob,Tobias Rupprecht,Ljubica Spaskovska Pdf

Placing Eastern Europe in a global context, this provides new perspectives on the political, economic, and cultural transformations of the late twentieth century.

Author : Masha Salazkina
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520393769

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World Socialist Cinema by Masha Salazkina Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this capacious transnational film history, renowned scholar Masha Salazkina proposes a groundbreaking new framework for understanding the cinematic cultures of twentieth-century socialism. Taking as a point of departure the vast body of work screened at the Tashkent International Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, World Socialist Cinema maps the circulation of films between the Soviet Bloc and the countries of the Global South in the mid- to late twentieth century, illustrating the distribution networks, festival circuits, and informal channels that facilitated this international network of artistic and intellectual exchange. Building on decades of meticulous archival work, this long-anticipated film history unsettles familiar stories to provide an alternative to Eurocentric, national, and regional narratives, rooted outside of the capitalist West.

Author : Alan Garner
Publisher : Random House
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448162857

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Strandloper by Alan Garner Pdf

A captivating novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary. 'A remarkable feat of literary imagination' Sunday Times

Author : C. Hudson Southwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Kayan language
ISBN : UOM:39015066316707

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Kayan-English Dictionary by C. Hudson Southwell Pdf

Author : Barbora Buzássyová
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040034583

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The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa by Barbora Buzássyová Pdf

This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three “development decades.” Starting in the early 1960s, Czechoslovakia sent abroad hundreds of experts hoping to stimulate the development of local educational and scientific institutions. However, over the years, the development aid to African countries transformed into a special form of foreign trade, and distribution of experts turned into a profitable business. Yet, the tendencies towards “sustainability” and “higher return on investment” in the field of development aid were not limited just to the socialist bloc but emerged globally. This book, therefore, not only revisits the roles of Czechoslovakia and Africa in the Cold War history but also reflects on the function of aid in international politics. The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa will appeal to students and historians specializing in the global Cold War, and particularly those curious about development, international organizations, economic history and transfers of knowledge in transnational networks.

Author : Robert Brough Smyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000666905

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The Aborigines of Victoria: with Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of Other Parts of Australia and Tasmania, Etc. [With Plates, Illustrations and Maps.] by Robert Brough Smyth Pdf

Author : Antoinette Schapper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614515241

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The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar by Antoinette Schapper Pdf

This volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are a group of related "Papuan outliers," which until recently were largely undocumented. This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the unique and diverse grammars of the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages.