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UNIBAS000002490 |
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Fadiman, Clifton |
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Reading I've liked : a personal selection drawn from two decades of reading and reviewing presented with an informal prologue and various commentaries / by Clifton Fadiman |
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New York : Simon and Schuster, 1945 |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910220023703321 |
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The Alor-Pantar languages [[electronic resource] ] : history and typology / / edited by Marian Klamer |
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Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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[Second edition.] |
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1 online resource (461 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
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Studies in Diversity Linguistics ; ; volume 3 |
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Alor-Pantar languages |
Alor-Pantar languages - History |
Typology (Linguistics) |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (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. |
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UNINA9910791943503321 |
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Autore |
Bashir Shahzad |
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Under the drones [[electronic resource] ] : modern lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands / / edited by Shahzad Bashir, Robert D. Crews |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, : Harvard University Press, 2012 |
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0-674-06476-3 |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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BashirShahzad <1968-> |
CrewsRobert D. <1970-> |
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Borderlands - Afghanistan |
Borderlands - Pakistan |
Islam and politics - Afghanistan |
Islam and politics - Pakistan |
Afghanistan Relations Pakistan |
Pakistan Relations Afghanistan |
Afghanistan Boundaries Pakistan |
Pakistan Boundaries Afghanistan |
Afghanistan Politics and government |
Pakistan Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Bashir, Shahzad / Crews, Robert D. -- 1. Political Struggles over the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands / Tarzi, Amin -- 2. The Transformation of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border / Dorronsoro, Gilles -- 3. Religious Revivalism across the Durand Line / Haroon, Sana -- 4. Taliban, Real and Imagined / Caron, James -- 5. Quandaries of the Afghan Nation / Hanifi, Shah Mahmoud -- 6. How Tribal Are the Taliban? / Ruttig, Thomas -- 7. Ethnic Minorities in Search of Political Consolidation / Rzehak, Lutz -- 8. Red Mosque / Devji, Faisal -- 9. Madrasa Statistics Don't Support the Myth / Andrabi, Tahir / Das, Jishnu / Khwaja, Asim |
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Ijaz -- 10. Will Sufi Islam Save Pakistan? / Shaikh, Farzana -- 11. The Politics of Pashtun and Punjabi Truck Decoration / Elias, Jamal J. -- 12. The Afghan Mediascape / Arbabzadah, Nushin -- 13. Women and the Drug Trade in Afghanistan / Nawa, Fariba -- Epilogue / Bashir, Shahzad / Crews, Robert D. -- Notes. Recommended Readings. Contributors. Acknowledgments. Index. -- Notes -- Recommended Readings -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life along the 1,600-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan can help America and its European allies realign their priorities in the region to address genuine problems, rather than fabricated ones. This volume explodes Western misunderstandings by revealing a land that abounds with human agency, perpetual innovation, and vibrant complexity. Through the work of historians and social scientists, the thirteen essays here explore the real and imagined presence of the Taliban; the animated sociopolitical identities expressed through traditions like Pakistani truck decoration; Sufism's ambivalent position as an alternative to militancy; the long and contradictory history of Afghan media; and the simultaneous brutality and potential that heroin brings to women in the area. Moving past shifting conceptions of security, the authors expose the West's prevailing perspective on the region as strategic, targeted, and alarmingly dehumanizing. Under the Drones is an essential antidote to contemporary media coverage and military concerns. |
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