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Devouring the Invaders: The Racial‐Ecological Politics of the Chinese Crayfish Trade in Kenya
ABSTRACT This article examines entanglements of ecology, race, and foodways at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Nonnative Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), first introduced to Kenya in the 1960s, were once viewed as invasive but are now sought after as a delicacy among Kenya's Chinese community.
Amanda Kaminsky
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On Semantic and Motivationsl Reconstruction of Russian Dialect Word LUTONYA
The question of the origin of Russian dialect word lutonya recorded by dialectal dictionaries in several meanings related to personal characteristics of the man: ‘slow man,’ ‘scruffy man,’ ‘liar,’ ‘tall man’ is considered.
E. A. Borisova
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Abstract Here, we describe a new species of Peckoltia (Loricariidae; Hypostominae) from the rapids of the Rio Tocantins‐Araguaia basin, previously identified as Peckoltia vittata, using an integrative taxonomy approach. The new species is distinguished from congeners by ventral region presenting diffuse stripes on surface, not presenting spots or ...
Felipe Arian Andrade de Araújo +3 more
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Adalékok a nyelvhasználók családnevekkel kapcsolatos ismeretéhez
Comments on language users’ knowledge about family names The paper presents the conclusions drawn from a 2010 questionnaire survey of adult language users’ knowledge about, and attitudes to their own names, family names from their places of ...
Anita Schirm
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CREATIVITY OF THE BUKOVINIAN FOLK PRAYERS
Prayer is a multifaceted phenomenon of the humanitarian paradigm of thinking: prayer is a genre of fiction, a fideistic text, a genre of confessional communication, a folklore text.
Natalia RUSNAK
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Poznawcze przesłanki semiozy zorientowanej na mit [PDF]
This article addresses the cognitive premises of designation units denoting mythic concepts in a variety of texts and discourses. The article focuses on myth-oriented semiosis as a cognitive and cultural phenomenon reflected in the semantic ...
Колесник, Олександр Сергійович
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The Objectivity of Ordinary Life [PDF]
Metaethics tends to take for granted a bare Democritean world of atoms and the void, and then worry about how the human world that we all know can possibly be related to it or justified in its terms.
A Haddock +3 more
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Abstract Lentipes ptasan sp. nov. is described based on specimens collected from Taiwan and Mindanao Island. It is a large‐sized Lentipes species distinguished by several male‐specific characteristics, including an upper lip protruding beyond snout obviously, fewer premaxillary tricuspid teeth, two black lines running from the front of the eye through ...
Wei‐Cheng Jhuang +3 more
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Human Attention as a Philosophical Problem: The Question, and the Nature of Questions
Abstract Human attention has become a touchstone of widespread concern across the humanities, sciences, and broader culture in much of the world. The emergence of a new, heavily capitalized, and technologically sophisticated industry “commodifying” human attention (what has been called “human fracking”) has given rise to a transdisciplinary ...
D. Graham Burnett
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Revisiting the Paronymic Attraction to a Personal Name: the Name Elena in Russian Dialects [PDF]
The article focuses on Russian dialectal words, which are full homonyms of the name Elena or its derivatives (Alyona, Alyonka, Elenka, Lena, Lenka) included into the same morphosemantic field.
Lyubov A. Feoktistova
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