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Human–Hedgehog Relationships in Turkic-Speaking Areas

Orientalia Suecana
Hedgehogs 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, Ingvar Svanberg, Zulhayat Ötkür, László Károly   +3 more
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Interactions Between People and Birds of Prey in Semi-Arid Regions of Brazil: Ethno-Ornithology and Conservation

Birds
How humans perceive and interact with other animal species is critical in enhancing conservation initiatives. The study recorded and analyzed people’s knowledge and perceptions of birds of prey and their interactions in three rural communities in Paraíba,
Hyago Keslley de Lucena Soares, Vanessa Moura dos Santos, Suellen da Silva Santos, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena   +3 more
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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.
Abstract When the hypotheses and presumptions underlying an ethnographic fieldwork project are found to be “wrong,” why can this be productive for research? By tying my autoethnographic narrative of having my doctoral research seemingly fall apart to anthropological conversations about reflexivity, this essay explores how the continuity of ethnography ...
Dylan H. O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Perception and use of fauna resources in communities surrounding a conservation unit in northeast Brazil = Percepções e usos de recursos faunísticos por comunidades do entorno de uma unidade de conservação do nordeste do Brasil

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, Thaise Sousa da Silva   +1 more
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The role of game mammals as bushmeat In the Caatinga, northeast Brazil

Ecology 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, Sérgio F. Lopes, Wedson M. S. Souto, Hugo Fernandes-Ferreira, Rômulo R. N. Alves   +4 more
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
wiley   +1 more source

“Piolho-de-cobra” (Arthropoda: Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) na concepção dos moradores de Pedra Branca, Santa Terezinha, Estado da Bahia, Brasil = Piolho-de-cobra (Arthropoda: Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) as viewed by the inhabitants of Pedra Branca, Santa Terezinha, Bahia State, Brazil

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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Toward an Ethnography of God

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 541-551, September 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, anthropologists and theologians have been engaging in conversation with one another. Building on, and branching out from, that conversation, this article calls for a careful ethnographic engagement with not just “God talk” (the literal meaning of theology) but also with the figure of God itself.
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

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

Conservation 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, Balanggarra Rangers, David Pearson, Melissa Bruton, Rick Shine   +4 more
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Constitution of ethnozoological semantic domains: meaning and inclusiveness of the lexeme "insect" for the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, Brazil

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2011
This article deals with the sociocultural construction of the 'insect' and 'animal' domains by the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca (municipality of Santa Terezinha, Bahia State, Brazil).
Dídac Santos-Fita, Eraldo M Costa-Neto, Alexandre Schiavetti   +2 more
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