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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Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The review examines the PhD thesis Toponymy of the Syamozerye in the area of the Karelian dialect borderland by A. Afanasyeva, based on rich factual material collected by the author during field research.
Lyudmila Je. Kirillova
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Identities with historical regions – are they adapting to modern administrative division? The case of Ukraine [PDF]
, 2019 Historical regions remain the most common basis for the formation or promotion of regional identities in Europe. However, regions and regional identities are in the process of constant formation and can change significantly in line with new conditions ...
Gnatiuk, Oleksiy, Melnychuk, Anatoliy
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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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Una mirada a un grupo de nombres de lugar de reciente creación en un municipio español: algunas semejanzas y diferencias con los topónimos antiguos [PDF]
, 2017 The present work is focused on toponyms of recent creation. These new place names have generally received less attention among scholars than those with a long history, which have often generated passionate debates and academic papers ...
Gil Jacinto, F. Javier
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La toponymie de l'Ile d'Orléans [PDF]
, 1962 The writer situates the Island of Orleans and briefly describes its physiography and history of settlement. The toponymy imposed during the early French regime (toponymie primitive)is described —with a few notable exceptions {Orléans, Argentenay ...
Poirier, Jean
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Pushed off the map: toponymy and the politics of place in New York City [PDF]
, 2017 This article examines conflicts over neighborhood renaming and the politics of place. Toponymy, or the practice of place naming, is central to the constitution of place, and neighborhood renaming is a pervasive urban strategy. But despite its prevalence,
Madden, David J.
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