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Tabulated list of bird names in ǃUi and Taa branches of TUU, with selected comparative reference data for KHOE and NTU languages. To accompany paper [Title] [Authors] (temporarily anonymised, pending review). Sources set out in Appendix B of the paper.

The present paper utilizes creative writings, to present and theorize the multiple faces of contemporary undocumented African immigrants and hostile work environments in Construcción, ¿trabajo o esclavitud? (2011) by Jordao Manuel Quizembe and El Gheryb, en Dormir al raso (1994). Even though, the mistreatment of Africans in the workplace, as portrayed in novels and films, goes from mild to harsh. I argue that this abuse depends on many factors, among which, the legal status of the worker (documented versus undocumented), the level of education (educated versus non-educated), and above all the country of origin (Maghreb versus Sub-Saharan Africa). I contend that the discrimination of sub-Saharan Africans in the work place is mostly due to the legacy of racism associated with blackness. However, this form of racism is subtle, moving from a “traditional” biological racism to a cultural one. The rejection of North Africans and Moroccans, in particular, is mostly related to the fact that they are historically implicated in the question of Spanish identity. The Moroccan identity becomes symbolically synonymous to the concept of the enemy: The “Moors”.

For centuries, the legal rate of interest in the Roman Empire was “one- hundredth”: 1 percent of the principal of the loan was added to it each month. Although Christian leaders and writers in the Greek and Latin west did not approve of this practice, Syriac-speaking Christian communities in the eastern Roman Empire incorporated the rate of “one-hundredth” into canon law, and some grounded it in a novel interpretation of the Syriac Bible. In this paper, I describe the incorporation of Roman lending norms into the framework of the Syriac church and discuss an early document that both reflects and modifies these norms: a “circular letter” of Symeon Stylites (d. 459), in which he commands that interest rates be lowered by 50 percent as a temporary act of piety. That letter is preserved in a manuscript of Symeon’s Syriac Life, found today in the British Library (Add. 14,484, fols. 130b–133b). I situate the letter within that Syriac tradition, and I offer the possibility that Justinian’s law of 528, which also lowered interest rates by 50 percent (CJ 4.32.26), might have been the result of contacts with this Syriac tradition, and specifically with Symeon’s regulation. I also examine the reception of the Roman rate of “one-hundredth” in early Christian normative sources (“lawbooks” and “canons”) from the Church of the East, in the Sasanian Empire. These Christians received the Roman norm of “one-hundredth” differently and did not incorporate Symeon’s pious reduction of the interest rate, or Justinian’s imperial legislation to the same effect.