Fraude et signes de qualité

Le texte porte sur la question de la fraude alimentaire dont l’importance est saisie au niveau international. Les solutions développées localement pour y remédier sont diverses et s’appuient sur une valorisation identitaire des spécificités. Par…

Call for papers

Dear Colleagues!

CAES editorial team waits for your paper for CAES Vol. 7, № 4 that is going to be published in the middle of December 2021.

The deadline is December 05, 2021.

CAES Vol. 7, № 3

Editor’s foreword Think pieces: The bear stones of Olkhovka Alexander Akulov The complex of sacral stones of Olkhovka is usually dated to the Iron Age and to the Middle Ages. However, there are some facts indicating that the stones could be used by the Neolithic people yet. Finnish/Karelian name of Olkhovka was Lapinlahti (literally: “Sami […]

Why African Studies Matters

One of my tasks as the former director of the Centre of African Studies (2014–2020) would be to welcome our new Masters students each year. In my short speech, and later in teaching our compulsory Introduction to African Studies course, I would try to …

The Metrical Features of Old Swahili Dance Poems

This paper aims to describe the metrical features of tumbuizo, Swahili poems which, allegedly due to their antiquity, present very different stylistic elements from later compositions based on regular metres inspired from Arabic poetry. The particulari…

A Language Fair, a Community and a Museum

Founded in 2003 the Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair (ONAYLF) has become one of the largest gatherings of Native American language learners in the United States. The Fair is unquestionably the most significant and sustained interaction with…