Anthropology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions

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    • Traditionelles Bauen und Wohnen der Salar in Nordwest-China 

      Wagner, Mayke; Flitsch, Mareile; Winterstein, Claudia; Lehmann, Heike; Heußner, Karl-Uwe; Ren, Xiaoyan; Xiao, Yongming; Cai, Linhai; Wulf-Rheidt, Ulrike; Tarasov, Pavel; Dwyer, Arienne M. (Dietrich-Reimer-Verlag, 2007)
      This report concerns research on the architectural history of Salar households conducted between 2004 and 2006. The Salars are an Oghuz-Turkic people who in the 13th century migrated with Gengis Khan's troops from the ...

    • Business and Islam Seminar Program (Contains Links to All Seminar Materials) 

      Janzen, John M.; Abou-Ali, Sultan; El-Hodiri, Mohamed; El-Gamal, Mahmoud; Fitzgerald, Patrick; Bradshaw, Bruce; El-Shaikh, Yahia; Birch, Melissa (2006-04)

    • Introduction to Seminar and Overview of Proceedings 

      Janzen, John M.; Seck, Ousmane; Aouani, Zaier (2006-04-07)

    • Consonantalization and Obfuscation 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000)
      The relationship between fortis/lenis consonantal distinctions and historical vowel length in Turkic shows up in a handful of languages on the eastern edge of the Turkic world as a kind of vocalic glottalization. This ...

    • The Turkic Languages 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Scribner’s, 2002)
      This short article surveys the locus and grammar of the Turkic languages: distribution, sound system, morphology and syntax, and relationship to Mongolian and other languages.

    • The Minorities of China. 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Routledge, 2005)
      This encyclopedia article surveys the non-Han Chinese groups of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). Ethnic policy and praxis are discussed, as is the relationship between language, ethnicity, ...

    • Tools and techniques for endangered-language assessment and revitalization 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (2012)
      A number of tools to assess the degree of language vitality have been developed, tested, and refined in an international collaborative context. This paper explores the uses and limits of these tools through case examples ...

    • Lemba, 1650-1930: A Drum of Affliction in Africa and the New World 

      Janzen, John M. (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982)

    • Dwyer, Arienne M. 1995. From the Northwest China Sprachbund: Xúnhuà Chinese dialect data 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data元任學會漢語方言資料寶庫, 1995-03)
      This paper presents fresh data from a variety of Northwestern Chinese spoken in Xúnhuà county 循化縣 Qīnghăi province. Xúnhuà Chinese is typical of Northwestern Chinese with its massive interference from substrate languages ...

    • Review of Central Asian Place-names – Lop nor and Tarim area – An Attempt at Classification and Explanation Based on Sven Hedin’s Diaries and Published Works, by Gunnar Jarring (1997). 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Turkic Languages (Harrassowitz Verlag), 2000)
      A review of Gunnar Jarring's Uyghur-language toponym dictionary of the Tarim Basin and Lop Nur areas, based on data collected in the early to mid 20th century.

    • The Texture of Tongues: Languages and Power in China. 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Frank Cass, 1998)
      The way speakers and nations use language reflects the power relationships of a society. Mandarin, canonized as the standard language, stands at the pinnacle of a metalinguistic hierarchy which mirrors the vertical basis ...

    • The Turkic Stratigraphy of Salar: An Oghuz in Chagatay Clothes? 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Turkic Languages (Harrassowitz Verlag), 1998)
      The classification of Salar entails several Turkic and non-Turkic layers. Salar was once assigned to the Southeastern branch of the Turkic family (e.g. by Poppe 1953). This article indicates that Salar is firmly of the ...

    • Language Contact in Qumul 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Journal of Central Asian Studies, 1998)
      At the eastern edge of China’s Xinjiang region, Qumul (Hami) has been a major gateway between Central Asia and inner China since at least the first century. This paper examines the effects of sustained language contact ...

    • Direct and Indirect Experience in Salar 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Mouton de Gruyter, 2000)
      Salar rigorously distinguishes direct from indirect experience: if experience is perceived as indirect, utterances must be so marked. The corelation of direct and indirect forms with personal deixis (Givón 1984) in ...

    • Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Mouton de Gruyter, 2006)
      This chapter examines central ethical, legal, and practical responsibilities of linguists and ethnographers in fieldwork-based projects. These issues span all research phases, from planning to fieldwork to dissemination. ...

    • Historische Fragen zur Ethnogenese der Salaren 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Harrassowitz, 2006)
      Die Salaren, die zu Chinas offiziell anerkannten nationalen Minderheiten gehören, sind ein türkisches Volk, das vermutlich im 13. Jahrhundert als ein Teil des dschingisidischen Heeres ostwärts aus der Nähe Samarkands ins ...

    • Syncretism in Salar Love Songs 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Ergon, 2007)
      Having melded Oghuz-Turkic, Tibetan, and Northwest Chinese linguistic and cultural elements, the Salars might be expected to show an equal degree of syncretism in their love songs. Indeed, they have hung on to a nearly ...

    • Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Benjamins, 2008)
      As the result of language contact in the northern Tibetan region, one variety of the Mongolic language Monguor (ISO 639-3: MJG) realizes prosodic accent as a rising pitch contour. Furthermore, a small number of homophones ...

    • Models of Successful Cooperation 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Benjamins, 2010-09)
      This chapter uses case studies to develop a model of productive collaborative research. In contrast to the privileged position academician-researchers may accord themselves, true collaborations recognize full agency in all ...

    • Bridal Laments in the Turkic World: A Casualty of Modernity? 

      Dwyer, Arienne M. (Ergon, 2008)
      The repertoire of symbolic practices for familial discord and death—as opposed to spontaneous outbursts of emotion in these contexts— have become ever more limited. The suppression of ritual lamenting can be viewed as a ...