Anne Hvenekilde
Biographic Data
| ID | 5904302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Hvenekilde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Hvenekilde |
| SIGNATURE | HVENEKILDE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kinship systems and language choice among academics in Shillong, Northeast India
In Shillong, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, Indo‐Aryan languages from the plains meet the Tibeto‐Burman and Austro‐Asiatic minority languages of the hills, and the result is a degree of multilingualism that is high even by Indian standards. English is widely used by academic groups everywhere in India, but structured interviews with all 17 faculty members of two departments at North‐Eastern Hill University in Shillong …
Personal Names in a Mande (Garo) Village
The Mandes (Garos), a hill people of northeastern India, have had no fixed inventory of personal names. Instead of choosing a conventional name for a child, parents try to find a sequence of sounds that has rarely or never before been used to name a Mande. Given names often reveal the person's gender but they rarely have any other meaning. Kinship group names, by contrast, are shared by hundreds or even thousands of others. Thus, given names are …
Norway (N)
Kinship systems and language choice among academics in Shillong, Northeast India
In Shillong, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, Indo‐Aryan languages from the plains meet the Tibeto‐Burman and Austro‐Asiatic minority languages of the hills, and the result is a degree of multilingualism that is high even by Indian standards. English is widely used by academic groups everywhere in India, but structured interviews with all 17 faculty members of two departments at North‐Eastern Hill University in Shillong …
Personal Names in a Mande (Garo) Village
The Mandes (Garos), a hill people of northeastern India, have had no fixed inventory of personal names. Instead of choosing a conventional name for a child, parents try to find a sequence of sounds that has rarely or never before been used to name a Mande. Given names often reveal the person's gender but they rarely have any other meaning. Kinship group names, by contrast, are shared by hundreds or even thousands of others. Thus, given names are …
Norway (N)
Personal Names in a Mande (Garo) Village
The Mandes (Garos), a hill people of northeastern India, have had no fixed inventory of personal names. Instead of choosing a conventional name for a child, parents try to find a sequence of sounds that has rarely or never before been used to name a Mande. Given names often reveal the person's gender but they rarely have any other meaning. Kinship group names, by contrast, are shared by hundreds or even thousands of others. Thus, given names are …
Kinship systems and language choice among academics in Shillong, Northeast India
In Shillong, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, Indo‐Aryan languages from the plains meet the Tibeto‐Burman and Austro‐Asiatic minority languages of the hills, and the result is a degree of multilingualism that is high even by Indian standards. English is widely used by academic groups everywhere in India, but structured interviews with all 17 faculty members of two departments at North‐Eastern Hill University in Shillong …
Anthropology (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Kinship (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)