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Grazing hay meadows: History, distribution, and ecological context
Applied Vegetation Science, Volume 26, Issue 2, April/June 2023., 2023 Grazing hay meadows, once widespread across Europe, became limited to rural regions with maintained traditional agriculture. Spring and autumn grazing, along with corralling and manuring of hay meadows, were integral parts of all farming systems existing in the Carpathian Mountains in parallel before agricultural intensification. We describe details on
Monika Janišová +5 more
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Official and Unofficial Toponyms on Norfolk Island [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 Norfolk Island (South Pacific), a small external territory of Australia, has a placenaming record marked by distinct historical, settlement, and land use periods.
Joshua Nash
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The state, identity politics and ethnic boundaries in Afghanistan: The case of Sunni Hazaras
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 669-685, April 2023., 2023 Abstract In recent years, a growing number of activists in Afghanistan have been proactively self‐identifying as Sunni Hazaras. The trend demonstrates an important shift that illuminates how ethnic boundaries may change and evolve in response to elite politics and state policies in Afghanistan.
Niamatullah Ibrahimi
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Névtani Értesítő, 2021 The Finnish database of exonyms In Finland, a detailed, regularly updated and complex searchable database of exonyms has been available on the website of the Institute for the Languages of Finland since 2018.
GÁBOR MIKESY
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Yubbi Yarning Circle Model: Collective Narratives and Cultural Expression in the Journey of Trauma
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 69, Issue 1, Page 6-34, March 2023., 2023 This article describes a “working model” that started as a culturally appropriate workshop created by students and staff involved in the Certificate III in Visual Arts at Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE, Shepparton Campus, Victoria in 2018. The Yubbi Yarning Circle Model (YYCM) sees First Nations Artists, as both Facilitators and Storytellers ...
Peta Wanjunagalin, Robyn E Thompson
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The Textual Construction of North American Indigenous Peoples in the Account of Cook's Third Voyage
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 463-485, December 2022., 2022 Abstract By foregrounding the stratification of cultural agencies underlying the text, this article analyses the conceptualization of human otherness in the official account of James Cook's third voyage, published in 1784. The close reading focuses on the case study of indigenous people encountered during Cook's journey up the west coast of North ...
Giulia Iannuzzi
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 333-344, February 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the benefits of putting Indigenous perspectives and the digital humanities (DH) in conversation with each other in order to elaborate a DH approach that is suitable for Indigenous research and to suggest critical perspectives for a more sustainable DH.
Coppélie Cocq
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Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos
Social Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 763-777, August 2021., 2021 Hat Ang, mythological culture hero of the Phong (an ethnic minority in Laos), exemplifies the figure of the upland pioneer. Taking the legend of Hat Ang as a vantage point, this paper discusses the ethnohistory of this specific Austroasiatic group and offers a mythological perspective into the discussion of uplanders’ agency and future‐making. This key
Oliver Tappe
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The Life of Slovenian Exonyms and Their Familiarity in the Professional Community
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2012 This article examines the lifecycle of Slovenian exonyms in which the characteristic stages are the creation of an exonym, its increasingly frequent use, its frequent and general use, its increasingly rarer use or dying out, death, and being forgotten ...
Drago Kladnik, David Bole
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History, Volume 106, Issue 371, Page 356-383, July 2021., 2021 Abstract This article explores the vocabularies of Amerindian languages published as part of the travel accounts written by explorers, traders and colonial policymakers in North America over the eighteenth century. Starting with the renowned Voyages by the Baron de Lahontan, the analysis takes as its endpoint the journals of the famous expedition led ...
Giulia Iannuzzi
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