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Woven woolen textiles are made from long wool fibers of a type that did not grow on wild sheep. Sheep with long wooly coats are genetic mutants bred just for that trait. If Proto-Indo-European contained words referring unequivocally to woven woolen textiles, then those words had to have entered Proto-Indo-European after the date when wool sheep
... See moreDavid W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
La Donna Harris and Jacqueline Wasilewski (2004) suggest:
Daniel J. Siegel • IntraConnected
Called “natural-born musicians,” Hawaiians were considered critical to military success.19
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
To be sure, Hawaiian men were also recruited for military combat;
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Ethnographic researchers try to focus their efforts on understanding the internal, or emic, perspective of the community, using etic perspectives only to augment the data gathered by the emic study.
Jennifer Visocky O'Grady • A Designer's Research Manual: Succeed in Design by Knowing Your Clients and What They Really Need (Design Field Guide)
Virtually every endangered language is endangered because its community was systematically targeted by genocide, forced cultural assimilation, some kind of political marginalization. On a practical level, language diversity encodes the sum of human cultural, historical and ecological knowledge. As a species, we lose knowledge when we lose
... See moreMary Elizabeth Williams • Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages
Sally Mallam • The Oral Tale
