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Returning to Yule

Jan 22, 2025 | blog.oup.com | Anatoly Liberman |Amrit Shergill

Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology Anatoly Liberman's column on word origins, The Oxford Etymologist, appears on the OUPblog each Wednesday. Subscribe to Anatoly Liberman’s weekly etymology articles via email or RSS.
Year in, year out

Jan 15, 2025 | blog.oup.com | Anatoly Liberman |Amrit Shergill

Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology Anatoly Liberman's column on word origins, The Oxford Etymologist, appears on the OUPblog each Wednesday. Subscribe to Anatoly Liberman’s weekly etymology articles via email or RSS.
The year is new and young. Everything else is old

Jan 8, 2025 | blog.oup.com | Anatoly Liberman |Amrit Shergill

Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology Anatoly Liberman's column on word origins, The Oxford Etymologist, appears on the OUPblog each Wednesday. Subscribe to Anatoly Liberman’s weekly etymology articles via email or RSS.
Meaningful economics

Dec 20, 2024 | blog.oup.com | Amrit Shergill

Meaningful Economics: Making the Science of Prosperity More Human By Bart Wilson December 20th 2024 Human beings mean. We just do. Human beings contemplate the importance or significance of everything, be it a person or a place, an action or a consequence, a possession or an idea, a relationship or our well-being, an experience or our connection to something greater than ourselves. If it can be some kind of thing, we value it, inevitably and instinctively. Human life is imbued with meaning,...
The concept of emotional disorder

Dec 19, 2024 | blog.oup.com | Amrit Shergill

The Concept of Emotional Disorder The Concept of Emotional Disorder considers the evolution-theoretic framework currently used to explore the concept of emotional disorder, and its limitations, and offers an alternative analysis anchored in a conceptual-anthropological framework. Sign in with your institutional access to read the full book or recommend to your librarian.
Migration, colonization, and the shifting narratives of ancient Andean origins

Dec 19, 2024 | blog.oup.com | Amrit Shergill

By R. Alan Covey December 19th 2024 In the Quechua-speaking highlands where the Incas built their empire more than 500 years ago, farmers and herders used the concept of pacha—movement across space and time—to shape local identities.
Rethinking migrations in late prehistoric Eurasia

Dec 18, 2024 | blog.oup.com | Amrit Shergill

Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia provides an insight into cutting-edge research on late prehistoric migrations in Eurasia, integrating different strands of evidence and emphasising the need for combining bioarchaeological analyses with a solid theoretical and methodological background.
Jolly Yule

Dec 18, 2024 | blog.oup.com | Amrit Shergill

Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology Anatoly Liberman's column on word origins, The Oxford Etymologist, appears on the OUPblog each Wednesday. Subscribe to Anatoly Liberman’s weekly etymology articles via email or RSS.
A look behind the curtain at the best books of 2024

Dec 16, 2024 | blog.oup.com | Amrit Shergill

By Sarah Butcher December 16th 2024 Every year, Oxford University Press’s trade program publishes 70-100 new books written for the general reader.
Does “the” get italics?

Dec 15, 2024 | blog.oup.com | Amrit Shergill

Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels: Insulting the President, from Washington to Trump By Edwin L.