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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]
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 188, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT 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.
Matilde Osório, Cecilia Veracini
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Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon [PDF]
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 +8 more
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Names, 2001 During the time I was administering Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) contracts in the University of New Mexico Barth Data Analysis Center (BDAC), my mother once took me aside and in a confidential, almost conspiratorial voice, asked, "Bob, what do you do?" That was the question my colleagues at BDAC often asked as well.
Robert Julyan
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Toponimi Nama-Nama Tempat di Kecamatan Kuta dan Kuta Selatan Kabupaten Badung Bali
Humanis, 2023 The results of this study are to describe the toponyms found in the origins of place names in Kuta and South Kuta Districts. The use of toponymy theory in this analysis is able to reveal toponymy aspects of place names in Kuta and South Kuta Districts ...
Kadek Endina Pradyani +2 more
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Brasil e suas águas – estudo das toponímias nas redes hidrográficas
Confins, 2022 Brazil has one of the largest water sources in the world, which embraces a great complexity in its hydrographic networks. In this work, we seek to highlight the variety of toponymy of Brazilian watercourses, distributed throughout the national territory,
Roberto Verdum +1 more
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Do island toponymies exist? [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2016 Explicit consideration of the concept of island toponymy is scant. Following a summary of recent island toponymic experiences on Pitcairn Island, this introduction reviews how the seven papers in this thematic section of ISJ offer methodological and ...
Joshua Nash
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Turkic elements in the toponymy of South Ossetia
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021 In this paper, the Turkic elements in the toponymy of South Ossetia were analyzed. Most of these elements have never been previously studied. A brief survey of the history of the study of Turkisms in the toponymy of the region was performed.
Yu.A. Dzitstsojty
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Toponymic Notions of Sámi Past(s)
Suomen Antropologi, 2023 The Finnish geodesist and self-taught ethnographer Karl Nickul (1900–1980) studied the Indigenous toponymy among the Skolt Sámi in northeastern Finland. This article analyses Nickul’s early publications and international correspondence, focusing on the
Otso Kortekangas
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Toponymy in Focus. Review of the book: Barandeev, A. V. (Ed.). (2018). Voprosy geografii. Sb. 146. Aktualnye problemy toponimiki [Problems of Geography. 146. Topical Issues in Toponomastics]. Moscow: Codex. 312 p. [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The review observes a new collection of studies devoted to the problems of Russian toponymy. Released under the authority of the Russian Geographical Society that keeps a constant focus on toponymy on the pages of its journal “Problems of Geography ...
Konstantin A. Gein
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São Tomé and Príncipe’s toponymy
Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2021 gabrielaraujo@um.edu.mo ABSTRACT. This study describes the toponymic profile of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), a former Portuguese colony.
Amanda Macedo Balduino +2 more
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