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Rural Autochthony? The Rejection of an Aboriginal Placename in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia [PDF]
This article addresses the question of why the name ‘Mullawallah’, advanced by local Wada wurrung for a new suburb in the Ballarat area, was contested and rejected by residents.
Newton, Janice
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Türkiye lies at the intersection of three global biodiversity hotspots yet is recognised as a global plant‐diversity "dark spot." Using > 15,000 georeferenced herbarium records and spatial regression models, we examined the environmental drivers of Brassicaceae species and endemic richness across the country. Species richness increased with topographic
İlayda Dumlupınar +2 more
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Tourism and toponymy: Commodifying and Consuming Place Names [PDF]
Academic geographers have a long history of studying both tourism and place names, but have rarely made linkages between the two. Within critical toponymic studies there is increasing debate about the commodification of place names, but to date the role ...
Adams S. +30 more
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Cuentos (In)Creíbles: Ethnography as Faithful Witnessing for Transborder Epistemologies
ABSTRACT Through the careful analysis of the border‐crossing epistemologies that are collaboratively shared and validated by a fifth grader and ethnographer in liminal classroom spaces, we identify key methodological approaches for researchers working with border crossers to document the co‐production of knowledge among researchers and participants, to
Sarah Gallo, Melissa Adams Corral
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MINING INFLUENTIAL TERMS FOR TOPONYM RECOGNITION AND RESOLUTION
The detection of toponyms present in text has appeared as a useful resource for many diff erent applications, such as for social network analysers and for geographic search engines. The variety of ambiguities present in the geoparsing process represents
Caio Libânio Melo Jerônimo +2 more
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Timely and accurate geolocalization of natural disasters is crucial for effective emergency response, which is foundational for risk mitigation and resilience development.
Wenping Yin +4 more
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Tracing the German Centennial Flood in the Stream of Tweets: First Lessons Learned [PDF]
Social microblogging services such as Twitter result in massive streams of georeferenced messages and geolocated status updates. This real-time source of information is invaluable for many application areas, in particular for disaster detection and ...
Andrienko, G. +4 more
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ABSTRACT Graphic anthropology has grown to become a distinctive subfield at the intersection of anthropology of drawing, visual anthropology, and multimodal approaches to social research. We assess this development and identify two emerging styles of graphic anthropological practice.
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos +1 more
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