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Missionary texts written in the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica contain important information regarding the encounter of the Hispano-Christian culture and the local indigenous cultures in colonial times. Among these documents, confessionals...

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of work of Christian missionaries in the Tamil territory of India, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, with a special emphasis on their linguistic research. The scope is limited to grammars composed...

In the language of the traditional inhabitants of these lands, itaipú means “stone that rings, stone that sings.” For the Avá Guaraní settlements that disappeared under the waters of Lake Itaipú, and also for the communities that absorbed...

Religion and information communication technology (ICT) are pervading phenomena in contemporary society, including Nigeria. ICT has served as a venue for the display and interactions of diverse religious practices (George 2006). The history of...

The recent reissue of "Outlines of a Nuer Grammar" (Father J. P. Crazzolara) and "Nuer–English Dictionary" (Father J. Kiggen) by South Sudan Cultural Productions, LLC, restores to active circulation two foundational resources for the study of the...

Faced with the general reluctance to consider the political dimension of ritual, we propose here an unprecedented village ethnographic description of Javanese ritual initiation in hamlets of the Gunung Kidul region. This initiation actively...