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Folk-taxonomy in reactive and exact term coinage. Exemplified by Herero Terminology
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2000 Folk-taxonomy is active in the stratum of the consumer language and common language on the one hand, and workshop language on the other hand. At the same time it forms an opposition to educational language (often called ‘bookish’) and supplements or ...
Rajmund Ohly
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Ethnoecology and use of fishes by the Cubeo people from the Cuduyarí River, Colombian Amazonia
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground Ethnoichthyology studies the knowledge of human communities about the uses, perception, and behavioral characteristics of fish, based on their cosmology, cosmogony, and culture.
Juan David Bogotá-Gregory +3 more
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21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the VisualThis article reconstructs the physical and intellectual content of Stella Kramrisch’s 1968 exhibition Unknown India. Ritual Art in Tribe and Village, organized for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Darielle Mason
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Medical WordNet: A new methodology for the construction and validation of information resources for consumer health [PDF]
, 2004 A consumer health information system must be able to comprehend both expert and non-expert medical vocabulary and to map between the two. We describe an ongoing project to create a new lexical database called Medical WordNet (MWN), consisting ...
Fellbaum, Christiane, Smith, Barry
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The Weaponization of ESG Infrastructures and the Future of Green Finance
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The trillion‐dollar green finance industry faces growing pushbacks from a range of actors. While criticisms vary—from portraying ESG as part of a “woke” agenda to highlighting risks of greenwashing—we now see mass departures from climate–finance initiatives, with asset managers coming under fire from regulators over ESG policies and activist ...
Annika Stenström
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What political theory can learn from conceptual engineering: The case of “corruption”
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Conceptual change is commonplace in political theory. Recent scholarship argues that improving a concept, or “engineering” it, can sharpen its normative and explanatory power. This article illustrates what political theory can learn from conceptual engineering (CE) by examining the evolution of “corruption” as a case study.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
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Race in Early Modern Philosophy [PDF]
, 2016 The ethos of Justin Smith’s Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference is expressed in the narrative of Anton Wilhelm Amo (~1703-53), an African-born slave who earned his doctoral degree in Philosophy at a European university and went on to teach at the ...
Lewis, Dwight
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Morphometric and Paleobiological Insights Into Pleistocene Sicilian Wolf Populations
Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Pleistocene wolves (Canis lupus) from Sicily represent one of the few known insular populations of this species from that time period. Despite their potential relevance for understanding carnivore adaptations in insular contexts, no dedicated study has previously investigated their morphology and evolutionary significance.
Domenico Tancredi +3 more
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Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cuticle and medulla of guard hairs exhibit distinct morphological patterns among mammalian species. To investigate this variability in marsupials from the Brazilian Amazon, we analysed guard hairs from nine Didelphimorphia species and incorporated data from an additional 25 didelphid species.
Matheus M. Bitencourt +4 more
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Jan Czekanowski Anthropologist and Statistician [PDF]
, 2009 Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej ...
Krzyśko, Mirosław
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