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Archív Orientální

Volume 84, Issue 2 (2016)

2016. ca. 150 pp.

Publishing status: Available | Distributed | Language: Czech

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

Table of Contents

Articles
Wenegit, a female counterpart of the god Weneg? Marie Peterková Hlouchová	231–248
The Ugie festival ceremonies as a demonstration of ancient Benin culture in Nigeria Damien Ukwandu and Benjamin Obeghare Izu	249–267
The transcendental self: Demystifying pāñcālī in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The palace of illusions Soumyajyoti Banerjee, Rajni Singh and Amrita Basu	269–290
Allegories of “love jihad” and ghar vāpasī: Interlocking the socio-religious with the political Charu Gupta	291–316
Daughters of the motherland and (Wo)men of the world: Global mobility in Shishang (trends/cosmopolitan), 1993–2008 Adina Zemanek	317–347
Shangri-la deconstructed: Representations of Tibet in the PRC and Pema Tseden’s films Kamila Hladíková	349–380
Precious scroll of the ten kings in the Suzhou area of China: With Changshu funerary storytelling as an example Rostislav Berezkin	381–411
The quest for ethnic reclassification in multiculturalist Taiwan: The case of the Sakizaya Michael Rudolph	413–443
Book Reviews and Notes
R. B. Parkinson. The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant: A Reader’s Commentary Reviewed by Stefan Bojowald	445–446
Bettina Ventker. Der Starke auf dem dach. Funktion und bedeutung der löwengestaltigen wasserspeier im alten Ägypten Reviewed by Stefan Bojowald	447–449
Zahi Hawass, Sahar N. Saleem. Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies Reviewed by Břetislav Vachala	450–454
Kirk A. Denton. Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China Reviewed by Hang Lin	455–457
Our Contributors	459–461

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Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General