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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This paper is devoted to the collections of old Sakha objects produced by Indigenous craftsmen in the north of the Russian Empire and now located in many museums around the world. For several centuries, objects representing Sakha material culture were taken away from their place of origin by explorers, scholars, collectors, and missionaries ...
Tatiana Argounova‐Low
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2015 Legal measures, such as the use of free or prior and informed consent, return of research results to communities (which can be understood as "sharing of benefits," according to Brazilian legislation), and research authorization by governmental bodies ...
Heitor Suriano Nascimento Liporacci +3 more
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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A vindication of ethnobotany: Between social and natural science
Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2016 Ethnobotany, a discipline located at the intersection between natural science and social science, is sometimes misunderstood by researchers from one field or the other.
Joan Vallès Xirau, Teresa Garnatje
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Is Ethnobotany an Ecological Science? Steps towards a complex Ethnobotany
Ethnobiology and Conservation, 2012 There are different links between ecology and ethnobotany. In principle, because they have common interests, like the conservation of plant resources. Nevertheless, the consolidation of the ecology as a science of synthesis that is based on the complexity of relationships between organisms and their surroundings, allows the ecology to provide a ...
Hurrell, Julio Alberto +1 more
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Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2006 CORRECTIONS TO THE EPONYMY AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ALOE ...
G. F. Smith, N. R. Crouch
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Relative Importance of Species with Potential Medicinal Use in Flora from the Midwest of Brazil
Fronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, 2014 The ethnobotanical studies is the first step for a multidisciplinary approach involving various professionals to establish what the promising species for botanical studies, pharmacological and agronomic.
Marcos Rodrigo Beltrão Carneiro +1 more
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Plants are a part of our everyday life and have always been. Ethnobotany is the study of the complex relationship between humans and the plant world found in their surroundings. This discipline has a long history of academic research all over the world. Ethnobotanical research includes the use of plants in all aspects of life, e.g.
Tunon, Håkan +2 more
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Acta Botânica BrasílicaThis article explores the evolution of the subject-object relationship in ethnobotanical research. Discussion of the main tendencies of each time period revealed a great distance between subject and object during the beginning of ethnobotany, which ...
Cristina Baldauf
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Ethnobiology! Until when will the colonialist legacy be reinforced?
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineIn this essay, we will present arguments for a negative answer to the debate question: “Is publishing ethnobiology data respectful of Indigenous and Local Knowledge holders’ rights?” We recognize that ethnobiological research has advanced in recognizing ...
Sofia Zank +6 more
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