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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Dinka"”.
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A uniform syntax for phrasal movement : a case study of Dinka Bor
… Guided by novel data from the Nilotic language Dinka Bor (South Sudan), I apply this view to three kinds of movement: A-movement, A-movement, and intermediate movement steps of successive-cyclic dependencies. In addition, I present a novel argument, from patterns of pronoun copying, that all …
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"In My Heart I Had a Feeling of Doing It": A Case Study of the Lost Boys of Sudan and Christianity
<p>While members of the southern Sudanese Dinka tribe converted to Christianity in large numbers in the early 1990s, the Lost Boys, a largely Dinka group of young men who were separated from their families during the Sudanese civil war in the late 1980s, had a distinct conversion experience in …
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From Southern Sudan to Adelaide: learning journeys of refugee secondary students
… Australia have generally known little about the Dinka speaking refugees’ family and community interaction, cultural background, home languages and learning experiences against the backdrop of almost constant war in southern Sudan. Similarly, their formal classroom learning experiences, feelings …
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It takes two hands to clap conflict, peacebuilding, and gender justice in Jonglei, South Sudan
… in South Sudan; the Lou Nuer, Murle, and Dinka in Jonglei raid and retaliate back and forth, killing civilians, abducting women and children, and talking cattle. Abductions of women have historically been a part of cattleraiding, but only recently became used extensively as a tool of war, …
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Párhuzamos államépítések Dél-Szudánban
… identitás (nem idegen, nem szudáni, nem dinka, stb.), a permanens gyarmatosítás, azaz a gyarmatosító államberendezkedés bebetonozása, a kiszervezett államépítés (nemzetközi közösség), a szolgáltatás biztosítása (humanitárius és fejlesztő NGO-k) és a kiszervezett békéltetés (egyház, helyi …
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LIFE IS PRICKLY. NARRATING HISTORY, BELONGING, AND COMMON PLACE IN BOR, SOUTH SUDAN
An ethnography based on research carried out between 2009 and 2010 in the vicinity of Bor Town, the capital of Jonglei State, in what was then Southern Sudan, this dissertation is primarily concerned with people's reflections on making agreements with one another during a period when the nature of …