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Repatriation and Ethnographic Archives: Katherine Routledge's Mangareva Field Notes in the Royal Geographic Society Collections

Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 534-541, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Just over 100 years after Katherine Routledge's 1921–1922 expedition to the Mangareva Islands, digitized copies of a portion of her field notes from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London were returned to the source community in French Polynesia.
James L. Flexner, Sarah L. Evans, Albert Faahei Hugues   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confronting forest‐dweller local ecological knowledge and environmental DNA measurements of biodiversity

People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 1382-1395, June 2025.
Abstract In the face of global changes and the biodiversity crisis, Local Ecological Knowledge of Indigenous communities is increasingly valued for aligning conservation policies with the needs of local communities and enriching conservation strategies through the synergy of diverse knowledge systems.
Opale Coutant, Damien Davy, Arnaud Jahn‐Oyac, Gregory Quartarollo, Alice Valentini, Tony Dejean, Sébastien Brosse, Jérôme Murienne   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon

Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 3, June 2025.
Abstract Globally, Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) are fighting for the recognition of their knowledge and decision‐making authority in freshwater conservation. In the Amazon, decision‐making around freshwater management and conservation has often overlooked Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and the connections between ...
Simone Athayde, Renata Utsunomiya, Lulu Victoria‐Lacy, Claire Beveridge, Clinton N. Jenkins, Juliana Laufer, Sebastian Heilpern, Paulo Olivas, Elizabeth P. Anderson   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geochemical and Documentary Topography of a Medieval Silver Valley: Detection of Workshops and Identification of Their Function

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 345-374, April/June 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the interdisciplinary investigation (archaeology, geochemistry, history) of a medieval silver and lead production site located in southern France, in the Minier valley (Occitanie, Aveyron, Le‐Viala‐du‐Tarn). In order to identify the production sites, in situ geochemical surveys were carried out using a portable X‐ray ...
Céline Tomczyk, Alain Bernat, Jérôme Belmon, Nicolas Minvielle Larousse   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of migration on forming the Russian toponymic system of Eastern Transbaical

Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2009
The article reveals the main factors that had an effect on peopling the territory of Eastern Transbaical. Migrants' conduct towards the existing toponymic system is analysed.
T V Fedotova
doaj  

HERITAGIZING THE OTHER: Diversity, Heritage and Gentrification in Amsterdam Oost

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 95-110, January 2025.
Abstract This article explores the complex connections between gentrification, heritage and othering in Amsterdam Oost, a district shaped by intertwined (post)colonial and (post)migrant histories. It does so by examining two temporary heritage‐making initiatives coordinated by the nearby ethnographic Tropenmuseum to celebrate the rich immigration ...
Elisa Fiore, Vittoria Caradonna
wiley   +1 more source

TOPONOMI DESA SE-KECAMATAN SRONO KABUPATEN BANYUWANGI

, 2018
Toponymy is the science or study of geographical names Toponimi itself means "naming geographical elements" name names of islands, mountains, rivers, hills, cities, villages. Toponymy also has the potential to be used as a learning resource in education, but in practice it is necessary to use an approach between geography, history and philosophy.
agus mursidi, Devita Sari, agus mursidi, (Prosiding Seminar Nasional FKIP Univeristas PGRI Banyuwangi 2018)   +3 more
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Hills thought to be mountains: A geobiocultural characterization of island highlands in Canada's continental plain

Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 69, Issue 1, Spring / printemps 2025.
Abstract North America is characterized by an expansive continental plain that has been described as platter‐flat. Yet this central continental plain includes isolated uplands that some people call mountains. The hill‐mountain muddle is a classic problem of geomorphology, arising from the challenge of discriminating continuous, attached forms.
Murray M. Humphries, A. Kirsten Bowser, Jiaao Guo, Allyson K. Menzies   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstruction or collapse of the fantasy world: Translation of the place names in Journey to the West

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Nouns are a characteristic feature that distinguishes one culture from another. Onomatology in general –and toponymy in particular– denotes culture and is affected by specific morals, religions, and ways of thinking, typical ...
Tian Mi, Rodrigo Muñoz Cabrera
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Across Madagascar, treeless grasslands characterised by erosion gullies are named after forest and trees

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 6, Page 1490-1504, November 2024.
Debates about the impacts of human settlement on Madagascar's habitat have missed the Malagasy perspective. Using indigenous and local knowledge in the form of toponyms, we find many regions across today's treeless grasslands are named after forest/trees, suggesting they may be novel.
Grant S. Joseph, Fetraharimalala Randriatsara, Andrinajoro R. Rakotoarivelo, Ando A. Rafidiarimanda, Colleen L. Seymour   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source