This project examined early marriage practices among Syrian refugees in Jordan in relation to their Sexual and Reproductive Health. The team of this collaborative anthropological research project consisted of anthropologists based in ...read more
This project is an investigation on the maritime history of late imperial China. Underwater archaeology is a relatively new field in the study of East Asia’s history and has repeatedly ...read more
Recently, the Department of Languages and Cultures with the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Ghent University has joined a large multidisciplinary project on East Asian religions (for a short abstract, ...read more
The present Collaborative Research Project aims at shedding light upon some very important defining features of past and modern European identity, such as multilingualism,languages in contact and the various types of ...read more
Three different varieties of Greek used to be spoken in Cappadocia (Turkish Kapadokya) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s: Cappadocian, Pharasiot and Lycaonian Greek. From ...read more
According to Dawkins (1916), the vowel system of Cappadocian consisted of eight vowels. In addition to the Greek vowels [a,e,i,o,u], it included the Turkish vowels [y, œ, ɯ]. These appeared ...read more
This research seeks to gain a better historical understanding of the coexistence of communal land systems with processes of global land commodification through which land access and control is standardized ...read more
Several hundred examples of the writings of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521) are preserved in the original Syriac language, but he was equally popular among other confessional communities of the Christian ...read more
As a crossroads between three continents, the Middle East has always been a complex contact zone for intercultural relations. Dating back to the Bronze Age, when the first 'international' contacts ...read more