Mozambique's Colonial-Era Non-Human Primate Collection at the National Museum of Natural History and Science of Lisbon: Taxonomy, Provenance, and Historical Context. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives This study reviews Mozambique's non‐human primate collection housed at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) in Lisbon. The collection originates from the Zoological Missions of Mozambique (1948 and 1955) carried out under Portuguese colonial administration. The objectives of this work were to: i.
Osório M, Veracini C.
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Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract 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 ...
Athayde S +8 more
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Proper Names as an Ethnocultural Text: Nogai Place Names as Determinants of Ethnic Memory
Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2023 The toponymy of any region contains information about the most important stages in the history of the material and spiritual culture of the people, behind each geographical name there is a historical reality.
Mariia Bulgarova
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Local History Literacy based Toponymy in Singaraja City [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesToponymy, as a cultural and historical marker, reflects the collective memory of a community and serves as a valuable source for understanding the socio-historical dynamics of a region.
Maryati Tuty +3 more
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История освоения карельского Поморья (в свете языковых данных) [On the Historical Settlement of the Karelian Littoral of the White Sea (based on linguistic data)]; pp. 179-194 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2016 The article focuses on the toponymy of the western coast of the White Sea. ÂLinguistic analysis allows us to conclude that for many centuries the territory has been an area of interethnic communication, traces of which can still be seen in the language ...
Denis Kuźmin
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Une approche synchronique de la toponymie mauricienne
Études Créoles, 2022 This paper examines the toponyms of Mauritius through the lens of a synchronic approach which is based on the syntactical, lexical and referential analysis of place names.
Yannick Bosquet
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THE DIALOGUE OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN BASQUE PLACE NAMES
Ибероамериканские тетради, 2016 Presently, Basque toponymy comes out as the result of a dialogue between cultures and languages inside the original territory of Basqueland, as well as the result of a dialogue with the regions historically tied to Euskadi.
OLGA S. Chesnokova +1 more
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Toponymy and the City, the Past and the Future
Проект Байкал, 2015 The article reviews and analyses the concepts of toponymy, basing on the exchange of ideas between the members of the Toponymy Council and the Editorial Board of the journal. The names of the new urban entities of Irkutsk are proposed.
Marina Tkacheva
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Personal Names of the Finnic Population in the Toponymy of North-Western Belozerye [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2018 The article deals with personal names of Finnic population retrieved from the toponymy of the northwestern part of the Lake Beloye region (Belozerye). Among these names, the author first distinguishes Christian names adopted into the Vepsian language and
Anna A. Makarova
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On the Relics of Scytho-Sarmato-Alanian Vocabulary in the Toponymy of Ossetia Voprosy onomastiki, 2018, Volume 15, Issu [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2018 The article undertakes to pick out the oldest Scythian-Sarmatian-Alanian element in Ossetian toponymy where the appellative lexis that was lost in the language is partly retained.
Yuri A. Dzitstsoity
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