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The Last Himalayan Monarchies (2014)
Book Chapter
Hutt, M. (2014). The Last Himalayan Monarchies. In G. Toffin, & J. Pfaff-Czarnecka (Eds.), Facing Globalization in the Himalayas: Belonging and the politics of the self (419-443). SAGE Publications

This chapter analyses the the contrasting fortunes of the Shah monarchy of Nepal, which was abolished in 2008, and the Wangchuck monarchy of Bhutan, which appears to have secured its future by promoting a process of limited democratisation.

Some Hieroglyphic Fragments from the 2011 Season at Karkemish (2014)
Book Chapter
Peker, H., & Weeden, M. (2014). Some Hieroglyphic Fragments from the 2011 Season at Karkemish. In N. Marchetti (Ed.), Karkemish An Ancient Capital on the Euphrates (132-136). Ante Quem. https://doi.org/10.12878/orientlab2

The article presents some fragments from the 2011 season of the renewed excavations at Karkemish, conducted by the University of Bologna in collaboration with Istanbul University, almost exactly 100 years after the commencement of the British Museum... Read More about Some Hieroglyphic Fragments from the 2011 Season at Karkemish.

Anatolian Hieroglyphs: Logogram vs Ideogram (2014)
Book Chapter
Weeden, M. (2014). Anatolian Hieroglyphs: Logogram vs Ideogram. In S. Gordin (Ed.), Visualizing Knowledge and Creating Meaning in Ancient Writing Systems (81-100). PeWe-Verlag

The Anatolian Hieroglyphic writing system includes logographic, semilogographic and phonetic writings. The ideographic and pictographic nature of the signs themselves is contrasted with their logographic function. In the process of extracting meaning... Read More about Anatolian Hieroglyphs: Logogram vs Ideogram.

Rethinking the History of Port Cities in the Gulf (2014)
Book Chapter
Fuccaro, N. (2014). Rethinking the History of Port Cities in the Gulf. In L. G. Potter (Ed.), The Persian Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports and History (23-46). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137485779_2

Adecade or so ago while literature on the history of pre-oil port towns was very scanty, the interest in modern and contemporary Arab Gulf cities was sufficiently advanced to attract the attention of regional and urban studies specialists.1 In review... Read More about Rethinking the History of Port Cities in the Gulf.

ヨーロッパにおける日本語教育の現状と展望：多文化・多言語を礎としたネットワーキングと恊働 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Iwasaki, N. (2014, January). ヨーロッパにおける日本語教育の現状と展望：多文化・多言語を礎としたネットワーキングと恊働. Presented at 大阪大学日本語・日本文化国際フォーラム「ヨーロッパにおける日本語教育の現状と展望」, 大阪大学日本語日本文化教育センター

The Hausa "Grade 5/Causative-Efferential" Verb: Causative, Noncausative, or Both? A Critical Assessment Of Previous Analyses (2014)
Book Chapter
Jaggar, P. J. (2014). The Hausa "Grade 5/Causative-Efferential" Verb: Causative, Noncausative, or Both? A Critical Assessment Of Previous Analyses. In S. Boušková (Ed.), The relativity of proximity and remoteness: communication from the perspective of culture and linguistics = Relativité de la proximité et de la distance: La communication dans la perspective culturelle et linguistique. Fakulta humanitních studií Univerzity Karlovy

This critical review evaluates various semantic classifications of the so-called derivative "Grade 5" Hausa verb. Members of this morphologically distinct class are all transitive but express a diverse range of meanings, e.g., kwantar̃ = Grade 5 ‘lay... Read More about The Hausa "Grade 5/Causative-Efferential" Verb: Causative, Noncausative, or Both? A Critical Assessment Of Previous Analyses.

Tracing connections and its politics (2014)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2014). Tracing connections and its politics. In H. Alff, & A. Benz (Eds.), Tracing Connections: Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Contexts. VWB

The chapter argues that studying places and identities as a tension yields useful research insights, because it forces us to do three things. First, it forces us to think about places and identities as processes – as continuously configured and re-co... Read More about Tracing connections and its politics.

"Tang Our Contemporary: Twenty-First Century Adaptations of Peony Pavilion": Supplementary Materials (Video Excerpts and Photo Gallery) [Online] (2014)
Other
Ferrari, R. (2014). "Tang Our Contemporary: Twenty-First Century Adaptations of Peony Pavilion": Supplementary Materials (Video Excerpts and Photo Gallery) [Online]

These video excerpts and photographs complement the publication Ferrari, Rossella (2014) :'Tang Our Contemporary: Twenty-First Century Adaptations of Peony Pavilion.' In: Santangelo, Paolo and Tan, Tian Yuan, (eds.), Passion, Romance, and Qing: The W... Read More about "Tang Our Contemporary: Twenty-First Century Adaptations of Peony Pavilion": Supplementary Materials (Video Excerpts and Photo Gallery) [Online].

Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian History (2014)
Book Chapter
Reyes, R. A. G. (2014). Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian History. In N. Owen (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History (246-257). Routledge

The impact of maritime trade, of invasion and conquest; the spread of Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, of migration and inter-ethnic mixing, have been diverse, far-reaching, and enduring in Southeast Asia. How did these contacts and convergences af... Read More about Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian History.