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A communication from 1868 tells us that in the eastern Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu it was common for people to cremate their dead. Being a rather unusual practice in a Chinese environment, this particular custom is discussed here from...

Drawing on the definition of the communicative function of the letters written in Tupi by the Potiguara Indians in 1645 as an offer of surrender, the purpose of Pthis work is to analyze such documentation regarding it as a space for negotiation...

Como hemos visto en la primera parte de este estudio (Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz 2023, en An­t⁠h⁠r⁠o⁠pos 118/1), entre sus textos en lenguas indígenas, la Biblioteca Británica tiene dos volúmenes de manuscritos del Nuevo Testamento (NT) en...

In numerous publications about Central Africa one can find more or less precise information about “Lake Aquilunda.” The lake was first recorded on the map published in the 17th-century work by Pigafetta and Lopez titled “Relatione del reame...

The question is whether it is possible to include in the same category purely unilineal societies that bring an incoming husband only exceptionally and reluctantly, when there are only daughters, and those that allow free choice of heir. Of course,...

By applying the concept of a multicultural curriculum and approaches to it as advocated by James Banks, this paper critically analyses the presence and absence of a multicultural curriculum in Indian text books after NCF 2005 through the case study...