Re: Nimrina phonology
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpjonsson@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 19, 2006, 16:59 |
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Herman Miller skrev:
> Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>> So what kind of people speak Nimrína? I hope I haven't
>> influenced your thought in some unwanted direction by this
>> bit of trivia!
>
> I've been thinking about that over the last couple days, and I've come
> to the conclusion that the speakers belong to a secretive race of people
> with fox-tails, best known in Scandinavia, where they inspired the
> legends of the "huldre".
As may be found if one googles for "huldre" and its
synonyms there is a theory that the Hidden People
reflect a memory of a pre-Germanic population.
I just accidentally came across an article I downloaded
long ago which bears a bit on this and similar subjects:
Gil-White, F. J. 2001. Are ethnic groups biological 'species' to the
human brain?: Essentialism in our cognition of some social categories.
Current anthropology 42:515-554.
<http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~fjgil/Species.pdf>
Since the original download seems corrupt I
uploaded it to my own space at
<http://melroch.se/misc/Species.pdf>.
I hope the author doesn't mind.
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/BP 8^)>
--
Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
"Maybe" is a strange word. When mum or dad says it
it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
means "no"!
(Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)