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- af Edholm, Kristoffer
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Rudra Mahāvīra : Vrātya-Elements in the Vedic Pravargya-Complex
- 2021
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Ingår i: Studia Orientalia Electronica. - : Studia Orientalia Electronica. - 2323-5209. ; 9:1, s. 1-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study reviews the arguments of previous publications, and adds new ones, for establishing connections between the Vedic pravargya-complex (the rituals, stanzas, and mythology of the pravargya), the vrātya, and the deity Rudra. These connections include Rudra as Mahāvīra (the epithet given to a deity and a vessel in the pravargya), the sattra setting of the pravargya's paradigm-myth, the motif of the unstrung bow, the theme of exclusion, and the divinisation of man as a goal of the ritual. It is argued that the superhuman status attributed to Mahāvīra is comparable with that of characters celebrated in the Ṛgveda and Atharvaveda, such as the ekavrātya, brahmacārin, and keśin. The affinity between these figures may be derived from a common ideology, with the roots of some of them to be sought in the Indo-European warrior-society and male rites de passage.
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- Bekkin, Renat, 1978-
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Connections between Tatars in Petrograd-Leningrad and Finland during the 1920s and 1930s
- 2020
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Ingår i: Studia Orientalia Electronica. - : Finnish Oriental Society. - 2323-5209. ; 8:2, s. 56-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Saint Petersburg served from the end of the nineteenth century as a transit point for Mishär Tatars moving to the Grand Duchy of Finland. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a small community had already formed in Finland, but its members maintained regular contacts with their relatives and connections in the Sergach district (Nizhny Novgorod province), Saint Petersburg and other regions. Contrary to common belief, these ties were not interrupted even after the October Revolution of 1917. Throughout most of the 1920s, Tatars and others crossed the Soviet-Finnish border illegally. Tatars living in independent Finland also sent considerable financial aid to theircontacts in Leningrad with the help of couriers.The nature of the ties between the Tatar emigrants in Finland and the Tatars of Leningrad can be illustrated by the materials of one criminal case. This case was instituted by the Soviet political police against representatives of the Tatar Muslim community in Leningrad in 1931. Only after several arrests and tightening border control was communication between the Tatars in Finland and Leningrad interrupted. I suggest that the Mishär Tatars in Leningrad and Finland constituted a single social and cultural space until the 1930s, when the connections between them were blocked. The ensuing divide had a large impact on the identity of the Tatars living in Finland, who began developing a separate Finnish Tatar identity just a few years after the termination of contacts.
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- Bloom Ström, Eva-Marie, 1967
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Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Variation in the Eastern Cape: Complexities of Xhosa Language Use
- 2018
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Ingår i: Studia Orientalia Electronica. - : Studia Orientalia Electronica. - 2323-5209. ; 6, s. 90-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the results of a micro-variation project in which linguistic diversity of the Eastern Cape of South Africa is examined. It shows that regional variation in the Xhosa dialect cluster is minimal and that many older forms and sounds that have previously been reported on are no longer in use. With a specific focus on morpho-syntactic variation, the paper gives examples from a corpus of recorded, transcribed and glossed speech collected across the Eastern Cape. It is argued that spontaneous speech is crucial in analysing morpho-syntactic variation when it is on a fine, intralinguistic level. The paper gives a detailed overview of previous publications on the dialects of the area and relates this to current findings based on the recordings. It is shown that the presumed decline in dialectal differences is not paired with a decrease in linguistic identity which is connected to separate clans and kingdoms. The dwindling use of regional variables is explained by a longstanding situation of personal mobility, standardization and schooling. This paper contributes to our understanding of the linguistic complexities of the Nguni subgroup of Bantu languages. It concludes that any experienced differences between standard Xhosa and the language spoken at home is not due to regional variation, and that their causes should be sought elsewhere
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- Patrick, Hällzon, 1972-, et al.
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Glimpses of Loptuq Folk Botany: : Phytonyms and Plant Knowledge in Sven Hedin's Herbarium Notes from the Lower Tarim River Area as a Source for Ethnobiological Research
- 2019
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Ingår i: Studia Orientalia Electronica. - 2323-5209. ; 7, s. 96-119
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This interdisciplinary study discusses the vernacular phytonyms and other ethnobiological aspects of vegetation in the Loptuq (Loplik) habitat on the Lower Tarim River. This small Turkic-speaking group lived as fisher-foragers in the Lopnor (Lop Lake) area in East Turkestan, now the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China. Information about this unique group, and especially the folk knowledge of plants in the area, is scant. In 1900, Swedish explorer Sven Hedin collected plant voucher specimens for the Swedish Natural History Museum in Stockholm. He noted local names on herbarium labels, thus providing modern researchers a rare glimpse into the Loptuq world. As the traditional way of life is already lost and the Loptuq language almost extinct, every trace of the former culture is of significance when trying to understand the peculiarities of human habitats and survival in arid areas. The ethnobiological analysis can further contribute to other fields, such as climate change, and define the place of the Loptuq on the linguistic and cultural map of Central Asia.
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- Petzell, Malin, 1972
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An analysis of the verbal marker tsa in Luguru
- 2020
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Ingår i: Studia Orientalia Electronica. - : Studia Orientalia Electronica. - 2323-5209. ; 8:3, s. 119-133
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with a morphosyntactic phenomenon found in the under-described Bantu language Luguru, spoken in central Tanzania: the verbal marker tsa. This marker encodes shared knowledge or shared reference. The meanings conveyed by the marker stretch from ‘at a specific time’ or ‘at that place’ to ‘as we know’, or even ‘for that reason’. In Mkude’s grammatical description of Luguru from 1974, there is a mention of a marker (zaa) signalling what he calls “recollected reference”, which restricts the event to one specific moment in the past; this marker is believed to have developed into today’s tsa.
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- Petzell, Malin, 1972
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Three Kagulu stories: annotations, analysis, and word lists
- 2015
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Ingår i: Studia Orientalia Electronica. - 2323-5209. ; 3, s. 48-95
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents three linguistically analysed and annotated stories in the Kagulu language, together with a word list. Kagulu is a Bantu language, classified as G12, spoken by approximately 240,000 people in the Morogoro region of Tanzania. The objective of the article is to make these stories public for several reasons. First, there is very little published material in the Kagulu language at all. Second, the few anthropological stories that are published do not come with annotations, glossing or even a word-for-word translation into Swahili or English, which do not make these texts very meaningful from a linguistic perspective. Thirdly, these stories tell us about Kagulu life and Kagulu traditions and can thus be a tool in helping us to understand the culture and identity associated with the language. Finally, it is important that every language is written down, described and published. Undescribed languages run the risk of disappearing, while documenting a language forestalls its loss.
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- Sorgenfrei, Simon, Docent
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Establishing Islam in Sweden : The First Tatar Community and Muslim Congregation and Their Sources
- 2020
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Ingår i: Studia Orientalia Electronica. - : Finnish Oriental Society. - 2323-5209. ; 8:2, s. 82-95
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on the history and establishment of the first Muslim congregation and organisationin Sweden, Turk-Islam Föreningen i Sverige för Religion och Kultur (Turk-Islamic Associationfor Religion and Culture), which was founded in the late 1940s by a small group of immigrants andrefugees of Tatar and Turkish origin. The community has been the object of earlier research (seeSvanberg & Westerlund 1999; Ståhlberg & Svanberg 2016; Sorgenfrei 2018) but the following isa first attempt to describe the historical background of the Tatars in Sweden through systematicarchival work. The article thus aims at being also an orientation to the archival and private sourcesof the group and their organization and to point out some topics of interest for further research.
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