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“A Bunny Is a Beautiful Thing” or Animals as Machines (!?). The Perception of the Animal World in Slovenian Folk Songs

open access: yesTraditiones, 2013
The article proceeds from the human-animal relationship as presented in selected folk songs and seeks to redefine the tra- ditional view of animals (as some sort of animate machines).
Marjetka Golež Kaučič
doaj   +1 more source

Outline of an Anthropological Contribution to the Study of Snake Venom Variability: The Case of Echis sp. Envenomation

open access: yesEthnobiology Letters, 2014
An understanding of the variability of snake venom composition is of high relevance for adequate treatment of snakebites. Clinical observations of bite victims are considered as a first step in the study of venom variability.
Tilman Musch
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnozoology: A Brief Introduction

open access: yesEthnobiology and Conservation, 2015
Connections between animals and humans date back thousands of years, and cultures all over the world have developed characteristic ways of interacting with the regional fauna over time. Human communities have accumulated a huge store of knowledge about animals through the centuries (passed from generation to generation, largely through oral traditions)
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves   +1 more
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ETNOZOOLOGI: STUDI KEARIFAN LOKAL MASYARAKAT ADAT KAMPUNG NAGA TASIKMALAYA

open access: yesFlorea: Jurnal Biologi dan Pembelajarannya, 2021
Ethnozoological study is a study that examines the relationship between humans and animals in traditional studies. People's knowledge in relation to these animals has been passed down from generation to generation to become local wisdom.
Yustika Ayu Sekartaji   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Etnozoología en México: Una revisión al estado del conocimiento

open access: yesRevista Minerva, 2017
La etnozoología estudia las interacciones humanos-animales. Inicialmente su enfoque era una simple documentación sobre los animales que los indígenas en determinada región conocían y utilizaban.
Tania Vianney Gutierrez Santillan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 469-479, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Sharper eyes see shyer lizards: Collaboration with indigenous peoples can alter the outcomes of conservation research

open access: yesConservation Letters, 2019
Our ecological studies on large varanid lizards in a remote region of tropical Australia reveal a direct benefit to collaboration with local indigenous people.
Georgia Ward‐Fear   +4 more
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The role of game mammals as bushmeat In the Caatinga, northeast Brazil

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2016
Although the use of wild mammals as a source of food has been better studied in tropical forest environments, their importance as a source of protein for human communities in semiarid environments is little known.
Raynner Rilke D. Barboza   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 595-606, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
wiley   +1 more source

Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
wiley   +1 more source

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