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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

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As requested by the local Tibetan community, a linguistic anthropologist (Ward) and graduate student (Moli) adapted the Buddhist-inspired framework of SEE Learning to facilitate reflections on best practices in Tibetan heritage language education. These refugees entered Canada with complex linguistic repertoires.

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Tackling the Impossibility—and Necessity—of Counting the World’s Languages

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But they are often regarded as variants or dialects of Chinese rather than different languages due to China’s relatively strong sense of ethnolinguistic identity , common cultural heritage, and widely understood written system. A visitor touches Chinese characters carved at Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, China.

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The Evolutionary Importance of Risky Play: Challenging Limits for Childhood Development

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The Origins of Risky Play: A Legacy from Early Humans Co-author Zane Thayer, associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth, explains that although children today are physically safer than ever before, societal anxiety about injuries has never been higher. ” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history.

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???“Å falle mellom to stoler”: Africans in Norway 

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Our mission has always been to communicate knowledge, highlight African contributions to the world’s cultural heritage, and to create. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2013. The post ​​​“Å falle mellom to stoler”: Africans in Norway appeared first on Anthropology News. We will reorganize, regroup, and keep fighting.