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2 books & a CD. This study provides a comprehensive description of the rich song culture of the people in the Thule area in Greenland, the Inughuit. In 1937 the archaeologist and folklorist Erik Holtved recorded 134 traditional songs in Thule. Transcriptions and scientific processing of this collection constitute the nucleus of the work. Another collection of Inughuit songs was recorded in 1962 for The Danish Folklore Archives by Bent Jensen and the author. The songs from both collections are presented and notated in full length and also with analyses of a representative stanza from each song. Descriptions are given of performing habits, singing methods, drum construction and handling, as well as historical and recent data. Searching for resemblances among other Inuit groups produced transcriptions and analyses of many traditional Inuit Songs from different localities in Canada. It was discovered that characteristic traits of the form and melody types of the Inughuit are linked to Canadian Inuit groups in southern Baffin Island and among the Copper Inuit in northern Canada, documenting particular areas of origin, and also giving information about migration routes. Many of the songs are presented on the enclosed CD

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Established in 1987, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) is an international scholarly journal with contributions in English, German and French. The journal's central topic is formed by the two closely related languages Tocharian A and B, attested in Central Asian Buddhist manuscripts dating from the second half of the first millennium AD. It focuses on philological and linguistic aspects of Tocharian, and its relation with the other Indo-European languages.

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This book explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian 19th century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said's binary notion of Orientalism and posits a more complex model describing how European counties on the periphery -- Denmark and Norway -- imported oriental imagery from France to position themselves, not against their colonial Other, but in relation to central European nations. Examining Nordic Orientalism across a century in the context of modernisation, urbanisation and democratisation the study furthermore shows how the Romanticists' naive treatment of the Orient was challenged by increased contact with the 'real' Orient.

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A presentation of the various indigenous coin issues that circulated in Eastern Arabia during the pre-Islamic era as attested in five private collections studied by the author. The basis for the classification is a corpus of 529 coins selected from those collections for publication here. Geographically, the coins came from two distinct regions which today comprise the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Emirate of Umm al-Qaiwain in the United Arab Emirates. Foreign issues were rare in these areas, although a handful of Sasanian, Roman, Seleucid, Greek, Phoenician, Nabataean, Elymaean, Parthian and Sabaean coins have been attested to in the collections that form the basis of this work.

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Hoplitkrigsførelse i arkaisk og klassisk tid

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The book outlines this development and discusses questions, such as: Why did it take so long for the English language to become part of the general education? What connected the Danish political-cultural orientation after 1964 and the development of the language subjects in the schools? Why was the school of Modern languages successful at first when later, in the 1930s, it came up against an identity crisis? The book provides a historical perspective for the topical debate in the upper secondary schools and proves that many of the arguments in this debate have been heard before.

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Spillets kunst is the first work to systematically treat the relation between acting and emotions in films. It is addressed to everybody who has ever been seduced by the art of filmmaking and wondered what the actors are doing and how they succeed in carrying us away.

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Ce travail a pour objectif de dégager les propriétés lexico-syntaxiques et sémantiques du passif dit périphrastique en français moderne et de corréler le décodage strictement linguistique á une élaboration pragmatique. L'auteur traite de la passivation comme une opération lexicale qui manipule la structure argumentale du verbe de base. Le système développé prévoit la formation de deux types de passifs reliés par une ligne dérivationnelle directe : le participe passif verbal peut être converti en adjectif. L'auteur montre comment les opérations d'ordre lexico-syntaxique sont systématiquement associées á des contraintes sémantiques et comment le décodage linguistique forme l'input au travail inférentiel dans la phase pragmatique.

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Ethnologia Europaea vol. 30:2

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Ce livre renferme les actes du colloque international sur le passif qui avait lieu á Copenhague en 1998. Pendant le colloque vingt-quatre conférenciers, venant de dix pays différents, ont présenté leurs interventions, et ce volume contient les articles de vingt-deux d'entre eux.

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