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Steve McCarty deposited How to Be a Professional Foreigner in Japan in the group
Japanese Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoA previous Deep in Japan podcast explored how ancient Japanese viewed their environment and sacred sites, culminating in the author’s discovery of a mountain range that was formerly viewed as a mandala that practitioners could traverse. This 2022 podcast is more autobiographical, describing encounters with Reischauer, Keene, Alan Watts, and…[Read more]
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Annika Tjuka deposited Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice. Volume 4 in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging, offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting Grant “Computer-Assisted Language C…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited The great dichotomy: How experiences of history and transcendence explain Ukraine’s political life in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe article uses Eric Voegelin’s ontology to address domestic processes in contemporary Ukraine. It explains how interpretations of experiences of history and transcendence evoke political order and justice. It also outlines the nature of political symbols deriving from these experiences. The article argues that Ukraine’s social architecture is…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Persian Huck: On the Reception of Huckleberry Finn in Iran in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoFirst translated into Persian in 1949, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is among the most popular works of American fiction in Iran. Although the anti-US policy of the post-1979 political system has tried to erase the manifestations of the previous period’s American influence, Iranian interest in Huckleberry Finn has been inc…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited همه چیز در خدمت شعر نو: خوانش نیما یوشیج از پدر شعر آزاد امریکا in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoنوگرایی شعری در کشورهای مختلف با پذیرش والت ویتمن، پدر شعر آزاد امریکا همراه بودهاست. روندی مشابه در شعر فارسی نیز مشاهده میشود. آشنایی فارسیزبانان با ویتمن به زمانی برمیگردد که شعر فارسی در آستانة تحول بود. نخست یوسف اعتصامالملک در سال ۱۳۰۱ بخش کوتاهی از شعر ویتمن را ترجمه و در مجلة بهار منتشر کرد. بعدها پروین اعتصامی در شعر «جولای خ…[Read more]
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Gil Rodman deposited The Net Effect: The Public’s Fear and the Public Sphere in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis chapter examines the public discourse — both utopian and panic-driven — about the growth in popularity of the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s
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Nick Posegay deposited Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew in the group
Graeco-Arabic Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoIn the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and…[Read more]
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Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Ivrit’s Place in the Dual Curriculum Model of Orthodox Jewish High Schools in North America in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe dual curriculum model ubiquitous to Orthodox Jewish day schools in North America typically bifurcates into religious (Judaic) studies and general studies. While most classes generally fit into one of those two halves of the curriculum, some classes are not intuitively categorized as wholly belonging to one part over the other. One of those…[Read more]
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Iskandar Zulkarnain deposited Locating Cultures in Video Games and Interactive Fiction in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoText of my keynote talk at Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES) about video game cultures, focusing on the global south.
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Historical language comparison with LingPy and EDICTOR in the group
NLP for Ancient languages on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoHistorical language comparison for the purpose of identifying cognates and sound correspondences in multilingual wordlists which can later be used to infer phylogenetic trees can be conveniently carried out in a framework of computer-assisted language comparison (see http://calc.digling.org), using tools for automatic inference, like LingPy…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Historical language comparison with LingPy and EDICTOR in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoHistorical language comparison for the purpose of identifying cognates and sound correspondences in multilingual wordlists which can later be used to infer phylogenetic trees can be conveniently carried out in a framework of computer-assisted language comparison (see http://calc.digling.org), using tools for automatic inference, like LingPy…[Read more]
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Thijs Porck deposited Let Them Be Vlogged! Video Assignments for the Old English Classroom in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoA brief article reporting on an educational strategy to use video assignments on Exeter Book Riddles for an Old English course.
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Thijs Porck deposited Beowulf: A Dutch Paper Doll Pirate History (1934) in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoReports on the existence of a set of paper dolls based on the Old English poem Beowulf, published in various Dutch newspapers in the 1930s.
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa in the group
African History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago‘Independence’ for bantustans was universally rejected by the international community in
the late 1970s and early 1980s. How the status of Lesotho and Swaziland as
internationally recognised states deeply embedded in South Africa’s economic and
political orbit differed from that of the bantustans was clear in some cases, murky in
others. The a…[Read more] -
Justin Walsh deposited Visual Displays in Space Station Culture: An Archeological Analysis in the group
Visual Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoWe offer an archaeological analysis of the visual display of “space heroes” and Orthodox icons in the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS). This study is the first systematic investigation of material culture at a site in space. The ISS has now been continuously inhabited for 20 years. Here, focusing on the period 200…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Correcting a Bias in TIGER Rates Resulting from High Amounts of Invariant and Singleton Cognate Sets in the group
NLP for Ancient languages on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoIn a recent issue of the Journal of Language Evolution, Syrjänen et al. (2021) investigate the suitability of computing Cummins and McInerney’s (2011) TIGER rates for estimating the tree-likeness of linguistic datasets compiled for phylogenetic reconstruction. The authors test the TIGER rates on a diverse sample of simulated data, which by and lar…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Correcting a Bias in TIGER Rates Resulting from High Amounts of Invariant and Singleton Cognate Sets in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoIn a recent issue of the Journal of Language Evolution, Syrjänen et al. (2021) investigate the suitability of computing Cummins and McInerney’s (2011) TIGER rates for estimating the tree-likeness of linguistic datasets compiled for phylogenetic reconstruction. The authors test the TIGER rates on a diverse sample of simulated data, which by and lar…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Correcting a Bias in TIGER Rates Resulting from High Amounts of Invariant and Singleton Cognate Sets in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoIn a recent issue of the Journal of Language Evolution, Syrjänen et al. (2021) investigate the suitability of computing Cummins and McInerney’s (2011) TIGER rates for estimating the tree-likeness of linguistic datasets compiled for phylogenetic reconstruction. The authors test the TIGER rates on a diverse sample of simulated data, which by and lar…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego deposited Of Time, Renewal, and Scholarship: Volume 11 (2021) Wrapped in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis editorial discusses the articles published and the activities undertaken by The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship during 2021, and calls for research system-wide cultural changes and wider contextual awareness in order to make scholarly communication fairer and up to the challenges of our time.
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David Olmsted deposited Many Minoan Linear A Ritual Supply Texts Surrounding a Drought Translated in Alphabetic Akkadian (1700 BCE) in the group
Writing Systems on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe commercial level trading which emerged at the start of the Bronze Age was made possible by a common written language. That language was Akkadian in its syllabic (cuneiform) form, its phonetic form (Phaistos Disk and these Minoan Linear A tablets) and all the early alphabetic texts prior to the rise of Greek and Latin. These translated Minoan…[Read more]
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