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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- social anthropology --- Mandara [Lake Chad region style] --- Cameroon
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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Constructions en pierres sèches --- Anthropologie --- Mandara, Monts --- Cameroon --- Antiquités. --- Antiquities. --- Constructions en pierres sèches
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Wandala is a hitherto undescribed Central Chadic language spoken in Northern Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria. The Grammar of Wandala describes, in a non-aprioristic approach, phonology, morphology, syntax, and all functional domains grammaticalized in the language. The grammatical structure of Wandala is quite different from the structure of other Chadic languages described thus far in both the formal means and the functions that have been grammaticalized. The grammar provides proofs for the postulated hypotheses concerning forms and functions. The grammar is written in a style accessible to linguists working within different theoretical frameworks. The phonology is characterized by a rich consonantal system, a three vowel system, and a two tone system. The language has abundant vowel insertion rules and a vowel harmony system. Vowel deletion marks phrase-internal position, and vowel-insertion marks phrase-final position. The two rules allow the parsing of the clause into constituents. The language has three types of reduplication of verbs, two of which code aspectual and modal distinctions. The negative paradigms of verbs differ from affirmative paradigms in the coding of subject. The pronominal affixes and extensive system of verbal extensions code the grammatical and semantic relations within the clause. Wandala has unusual clausal structure, in that in a pragmatically neutral verbal clause, there is only one nominal argument, either the subject or the object. These arguments can follow a variety of constituents. The grammatical role of that argument is coded by inflectional markers on the verb and most interestingly, on whatever lexical or grammatical morpheme precedes the constituent. The markers of grammatical relations added to verbs are different for different classes of verbs.
Grammar --- African languages --- Cameroon --- Wandala language --- Mandara language --- Ndara language --- Chadic languages --- Grammar. --- Grammaticalization. --- Language Typology. --- Non-Indo-European Languages.
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Art objects --- Buddhist painting --- Painting, Japanese --- Conservation and restoration. --- Conservation and restoration. --- Conservation and restoration. --- Taima mandara.
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Folk music --- Uldeme (African people) --- Uldeme (African people) --- Music --- Social life and customs --- Mandara Mountains Region (Cameroon and Nigeria) --- Social life and customs.
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In this comprehensive study of the Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara, Chari Pradel provides a new interpretation of this assemblage of embroidered textile fragments associated with Prince Shotoku (574-622). By analyzing the scant visual evidence in the context of East Asian visual art of the period, the author recreates the subject represented on the seventh century artifact and demonstrates that it was not Buddhist (as previously believed), but associated with the funerary iconography of China that arrived in Japan with immigrants from the Korean peninsula. In addition, by closely investigating the context for the compilation of each of the documents associated with the artifact, Pradel illuminates the history of the embroidery and its changing significance and perception over the centuries.
Embroidery --- Textile fabrics --- Textile design --- Art, Japanese --- Art, Japanese --- History --- History --- History --- Chinese influences --- Shōtoku Taishi, --- Chūgūji (Ikaruga-chō, Nara-ken, Japan) --- Tenjukoku shūchō mandara.
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