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K-Pop as a Means to an End among Thai Youth: Korean Wave as Costume, Food, and Image (2018)
Journal Article
Howard, K., & Lekakul, G. (2018). K-Pop as a Means to an End among Thai Youth: Korean Wave as Costume, Food, and Image. Culture and empathy, 1(1-4), 18-33. https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2018/1.1234.0003

Assessments of the impact of K-pop beyond Korea, and of other aspects within the broader Korean Wave, often focus on groups of fans. The research reported here began from an intention to move beyond fandom, encouraged by a challenge to demonstrate th... Read More about K-Pop as a Means to an End among Thai Youth: Korean Wave as Costume, Food, and Image.

Boko Haram (2018)
Book
Kendhammer, B., & McCain, C. (2018). Boko Haram. Ohio University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv224tpdz

From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the world’s most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Haram’s bloody, decade-long war in northeastern Nigeria. Going beyond th... Read More about Boko Haram.

Postcolonial Mythologies (2018)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2018). Postcolonial Mythologies. American book review, 39(4), 7-8. https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2018.0039

Review of Lesley Nneka Arimah's What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah for the Harassment issue of American Book Review

Plural addressee marker and grammaticalization in Barayin (2018)
Journal Article
Lovestrand, J. (2018). Plural addressee marker and grammaticalization in Barayin. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 10(1), 52-82. https://doi.org/10.1163/18776930-01001004

This article describes two distinct but related grammaticalization paths in Barayin, an East Chadic language. One path is from a first-person plural pronoun to a first-person dual pronoun. Synchronically, the pronominal forms in Barayin with first-pe... Read More about Plural addressee marker and grammaticalization in Barayin.

The background marker ná in Barayin (2018)
Journal Article
Lovestrand, J. (2018). The background marker ná in Barayin. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 39(1), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2018-0001

This article gives a first account of the background marker ná in Barayin, an East Chadic language spoken in the Guera region of Chad. The article describes the marker’s syntactic distribution and the semantic and pragmatic contexts it occurs in. It... Read More about The background marker ná in Barayin.

Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research (2018)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research. The Silk Road (Sofia), 4, 291-300

The current and continuing shifts in frequently contrasting „official” and popular stances multiculturalism and religious pluralism in Europe are clearly symptomatic of the growing crisis of state multiculturalism in Europe, a crisis increasingly vis... Read More about Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.