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Human–Hedgehog Relationships in Turkic-Speaking Areas
Orientalia SuecanaHedgehogs play an important cultural role among various peoples in Eurasia. They appear in myths, and are regarded as wise guides, protectors, or magical creatures.
Patrick Hällzon +3 more
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Journal 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
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Zootherapy in the Amazon: green anaconda ( Eunectes murinus ) fat as a natural medicine to treat wounds [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2017 Zootherapy (the use of the therapeutic potential of animals) is at least 6,000 years old, and has been kept active throughout generations until modern days. Animal fat is commonly used in the zootherapeutic folk medicine from South America, specially the
Erika SOUZA +3 more
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Jurnal Kelautan Tropis, 2023 There are many reports of a decline in the population of horseshoe crabs in Asia, but knowledge about the distribution of horseshoe crabs on the coast of Bintan Island is still limited.
Rika Anggraini, Ita Karlina
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Who is local and what do they know? Braiding knowledges within carnivore management in Europe
People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 7, Page 2026-2035, July 2026.Abstract Growing recognition of Indigenous Peoples and traditional local communities as stewards of biodiversity has brought to the fore the issues of knowledge and value pluralism in conservation policy and practice. Given their basis in practical and multi‐generational experience, Indigenous and local knowledges are highly relevant to managing human ...
Hanna Pettersson +6 more
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Palmipedes. Ethnozoology and ethnozootechny [PDF]
, 1988 Les Palmipèdes sont étudiés ici à travers un numéro spécial (39) que leur a consacré la revue Ethnozootechnie : dans l’élevage donc, mais aussi à la chasse, à travers l’histoire, les pays (Gascogne, Taïwan, Argentine) et les peuples (Tsiganes...).
Rousseau, Michel
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Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2010 Biodiversity is threatened by many human activities, and the creation of new Conservation Units (CUs) attempts to reduce this threat. However, this alone has not achieved the expected results.
Eliza Maria Xavier Freire +1 more
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Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the education trajectories of Indonesian students attending university in Singapore. These students and their parents consider a project of educational migration to Singapore as a proven pathway toward their varied aspirations.
Erica M. Larson
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Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2006 O presente artigo registra as concepções, os conhecimentos e os comportamentos que os moradores do povoado de Pedra Branca, no Estado da Bahia, possuem sobre o “piolho-de-cobra” (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha).
Eraldo Medeiros Costa Neto
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Tracking Aspirations: Neoliberal Education and Mobility for Cambodian Youth
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Cambodia, this article focuses on secondary students who aspire to social and spatial mobility. It examines how a subject‐based tracking system intersects with other facets of the educational landscape to stratify students along class lines.
Jennifer Estes
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