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Folk taxonomy of wild mushrooms in communities of the indigenous groups Chatino, Chontal, and Chinantec in Oaxaca, Mexico [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground Traditional names of wild mushrooms have long served as crucial links between these organisms and humans. In Mexico, cultural groups traditionally use indigenous and Spanish names and have developed effective methods for classifying and naming
Alexanders López-García +2 more
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Folk Taxonomy of Fish in Kaera Language
Bahasa: Jurnal Keilmuan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia, 2022 This paper describes ethnosemantic system of fish classification in Kaera Language, a papuan language spoken in East Pantar, Alor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The aims of this study are to document vernacular names of fish in Kaera Language, to classify them using folk taxonomy proposed by Berlin (1992), and to describe the fish naming ...
Haniva Yunita Leo
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Semantic codability in folk taxonomy: A cultural-linguistic perspective
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 A language definition is presented in the introduction without further detailed explanation, but it is given to show how language is viewed from a general perspective that encompasses most of its domains. Every word or phrase in this definition may rightly correspond to an independent branch in language studies.
Bakıl Alı Alwalss
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Neotropical Ichthyology, 2022 Fish local knowledge is important to recognize species and contribute to conservation and management strategies. Thus, our aim was to provide diagnostic information for the rapid identification of Mugilidae species in Caeté-Taperaçu Extractive Reserve in
Mayra Nascimento +6 more
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Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2021 This article deals with folk names (phytonyms) that denote common yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.) in two Germanic (English, German) and three Finno-Permic languages (Finnish including Ingrian Finnish dialects, Karelian and Komi). The author analyses the
Elena Georgievna Galitsyna
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Folk Taxonomy of Poaceae in Mongolia
Nomadic Civilization: Historical ResearchThis article is the English translation of Japanese original text “Mongol ni okeru Ineka no Minzoku bunrui” written by Yuki Konagaya and others published in 2024 in “Japan and Mongolia” (58: 139-157).
Yu. Konagaya, K. Suzuki, A. Hotta
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Using folk taxonomies to understand stakeholder perceptions for species conservation [PDF]
Conservation Letters, 2011 Abstract We used folk biological classification as a framework for understanding stakeholder perceptions of marine species diversity and its potential consequences for conservation in Puget Sound, Washington. Respondents ( N = 99) classified 46 marine species into folk ...
Anne H Beaudreau
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Folk knowledge of invertebrates in Central Europe - folk taxonomy, nomenclature, medicinal and other uses, folklore, and nature conservation. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2016 BackgroundThere is scarce information about European folk knowledge of wild invertebrate fauna. We have documented such folk knowledge in three regions, in Romania, Slovakia and Croatia.
Ulicsni V, Svanberg I, Molnár Z.
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Environmental science investigations of folk taxonomy and other forms of indigenous knowledge
South African Journal of Science, 2020 PUBLISHED: 29 January 2020 The strides made in standardising English and Afrikaans frog names created a gap to achieve the same for the other South African languages spoken by the majority of the country’s population.
Fortunate M. Phaka
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Vernacular dominance in folk taxonomy: a case study of ethnospecies in medicinal plant trade in Tanzania. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2015 BackgroundMedicinal plants are traded as products with vernacular names, but these folk taxonomies do not always correspond one-to-one with scientific plant names.
Otieno J +5 more
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