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The Yao Muslims : religion and social change in southern Malawi
No full textThe African Muslim minority in Malawi has been identified with
one particular linguistic group, the Yao. The dissertation
begins with the problem of their conversion and adherence to
Islam in the face of seemingly adverse circumstances. In
exploring-solutions to this problem the emergence of a Yao
identity is outlined and the politics of conversion are
described. The narrative then moves on to the transformations of
the Yao Muslims in the hundred years since their conversion. A
model of religious change is developed that attempts to account
for both the dynamics of change and the contemporary situation
of Islam in southern Malawi. The Yao Muslims are shown to be
divided into three competing and sometimes hostile factions that
are termed the Sufis, the sukuti or 'quietist' movement and the
new reformists. The appearance of these movements and their
interaction with one another is described in relation to the
questions of identity and religious practice. The model proposes
a three phase scheme of Islamic change (appropriation and
accommodation followed by internal reform and then the new
reformist movement) that is defined in part by the relationship
of the Yao Muslims to writing and the Book. It is suggested that
a certain logic of transformation is endogenous to Islam as a
religion of the Book and that the scripturalist tendencies of
the reformist movement give it an advantage over the followers
of Sufi practices, especially in the context of modern systems
of communication and education. The general approach is that of
an historical anthropology, linking notions of structured change
to anthropological concerns with ritual and practice. The
analysis concludes by raising questions about the nature of
religious change in the context of an increasingly volatile
world system and the place of the anthropology of religion in
the understanding of modernity
Notes Regarding the Customs of Marriage of the Yao Tribe
No full textAuthor was member of Yao (Mien) ethnic group and wrote this paper in Lao script. Undated
Wei sun zhai shi chao.
No full text姚琮.綫裝."乙酉四月刊于陪都"--題字頁背.Yao Cong.Xian zhuang."Yi you si yue kan yu pei du"--Ti zi ye bei
Professor´s Yao Tandong opening statement at NRF Open Assembly 2011
No full textProfessor Yao Tandong, from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at Chinese Academy of Science, speaks here in the opening session of the 6th Northern Research Forum, held in Hveragerði in September 2011.
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Jiu yao shi kao
No full text[翁方綱錄].綫裝, 1函.內封背頁印"光緖歲在辛卯[1891]秌七月廣州石經堂書局影印"見《香港中文大學圖書館中國古藉目錄》(2004, p. 210)附: 九曜石考 : 上, 下卷.Xian zhuang, 1 han.Nei feng bei ye yin "Guangxu sui zai xin mao [1891] qiu qi yue Guangzhou Shi jing tang shu ju ying yin"Jian "Xianggang Zhong wen da xue tu shu guan Zhongguo gu ji mu lu" (2004, p. 210)[Weng Fanggang lu].Fu: Jiu yao shi kao : shang, xia juan
A Business Plan: Yao Chain
No full textTraditional Chinese painting and calligraphy artworks have a solid market base and value consensus but have been operating inefficiently due to information asymmetry and low circulation efficiency. If blockchain technology can be used to enhance industry efficiency by reducing transaction costs, breaking down the information barriers and improving its market liquidity, Traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy art market will make a huge leap in market space. Yao Chain is a blockchain-based asset trading platform for the Traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy industry, and from which the distributed economic ecology is built. Collectors who own artworks use them as the underlying assets to issue Yao Chain Subcoins (this will be fully explained later) anchoring the value of the artworks on the Yao Chain. Appraisal institutions and trustees with social credibility will provide services and credit enhancement for Yao Chain Subcoins to realize the transmission of credibility. After realizing the secondary market pricing, Yao Chain will become an open and transparent market to attract buyers to privatize the artworks by purchasing Yao Chain Subcoins, where collectors will have the opportunity to earn the liquidity premium of Yao Chain Subcoins in contrast to the original value of the artwork, and buyers will obtain a strictly authenticated and well-circulated work of painting or calligraphy
The Yao People
No full textArticle describing the life and cultural customs of the Yao, an ethnic minority in Laos, including their working habits, food, housing, and religious ceremonies.Yananda, Nan Chan Sungsi, Luang Nonwakorn and E.G. Sebastian. 1925. "The Yao: a Paper Written in Reply To the Questionnaire of the Siam Society." In Journal of the Siam Society, 19 , no. 2: 82-9
Entrevista com Yao Feng
No full textYao Jingming é professor associado no Departamento de Português da Universidade de Macau (UM), onde atua sobretudo no Mestrado em Estudos da Tradução (chinês-português). Começou a traduzir literatura de expressão portuguesa na década de 1980, logo após concluir a graduação em Língua Portuguesa no Instituto de Línguas Estrangeiras de Pequim, atual Universidade de Estudos Estrangeiros de Pequim. Yao Jingming assina seus trabalhos poéticos e criativos, e parte de seus ensaios e artigos acadêmicos, com o pseudônimo Yao Feng. Seu livro mais recente de poemas traduzidos foi lançado em 2012, com o título ?????? (Branco no Branco, de Eugénio de Andrade, Editora Livros do Meio, Macau)
Materials for Yao et al. (2024, 2026)
No full textMaterials used in the speech production task and the social perception experiment reported in Yao, Li, Li, and Chang (2024, "Perceiving the social meanings of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese", Speech Prosody 2024) and Yao, Li, and Chang (2026, "Social perception of creaky voice in Mandarin Chinese: Everyone's gender matters", Humanities and Social Sciences Communications), in Excel (.xlsx) and PDF format
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