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The role of numerals in the formation and functioning of the toponymic system: complex approach
The aim of the research is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of numerative toponyms on the material of the USA toponymic system. The material of the research was toponyms containing numerals from 1 to 10 in the amount of 20709 units, obtained by the ...
A. V. Urazmetova
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Abstract This article examines how language and environment become constitutive through the emergent environmentalism of Hemshin youth returning to Turkey's Hemshin lands from major cities. As development transforms the landscape, young Hemshins engage in “reading” their lands, encountering linguistic and material traces like stories, place names, and ...
Neşe Kaya‐Özkan
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LacusPyr, a Catalogue of Lakes and Ponds of the Pyrenees
The LacusPyr dataset provides a comprehensive, georeferenced inventory of Pyrenean lakes and ponds, integrating key geomorphological attributes that underpin limnological processes. By enabling analyses across spatial, elevation, and watershed scales, this dataset supports research on mountain lake functioning, regional metacommunities, climate ...
Jordi Catalan +8 more
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The Image of Women Figures in Folklore of Kudus Kulon’s Toponyms: A Linguistics Anthropology Study
This study aims to explore the image of women figures in folklore relating to the naming of a place (toponym) in the Kudus Kulon area. This study was carried out with a linguistic anthropology approach, which focuses on language as a set of symbolic ...
Ratna Muthia, Fatah Syukur
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ABSTRACT Drawing on three ethnographic studies of secondary schools in England, this article makes a case for “socio‐technical audits”—a method combining technological walkthroughs with observations, workshops, and interviews—as part of ethnographic inquiry. A case example is presented to illustrate how the integration of socio‐technical audits enables
Louise Couceiro +2 more
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Learning From and Alongside Each Other: A Humanizing Approach to Team‐Based Ethnography
ABSTRACT Drawing from 7 years of team‐based ethnographic research with Hmong communities in Wisconsin, we—a multiethnic group of Asian American women—extend Paris and Winn's (2013) concept of humanizing research. We argue that relational care among research team members is central to sustaining humanizing practices.
Linda M. Pheng +3 more
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ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
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When Urgency Drops: Temporal Consciousness and the Choreography of Dying
ABSTRACT In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes ...
Louise Chartrand
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Cache‐Cache: Dans les souffles du Grand Fleuve…
ABSTRACT Between ventriloquism and divination, devotion and consecration, an old and sublime marine game unfolds each day, with living breaths shared in the waters of the great river. In Tadoussac, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence Estuary, at the mouth of the Saguenay, the rumor of whales has long resonated.
David Jaclin +3 more
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Methods and applications of text-driven toponym resolution with indirect supervision [PDF]
textThis thesis addresses the problem of toponym resolution. Given an ambiguous placename like Springfield in some natural language context, the task is to automatically predict the location on the earth's surface the author is referring to.
Speriosu, Michael Adrian
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