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Pristine Toponymy and Embedded Placenames on Islands
Names, 2012 Pristine placenaming or pristine toponymy is a concept first put forward by : 333). Ross considers a toponym pristine ‘if, and only if, we are cognisant of the actual act of its creation.’ This paper redefines and extends Ross’s definition of pristine ...
Joshua Nash
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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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Field Research of Karelian Toponymy [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2012 The article reviews toponymy field research carried out by the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences during the past 40 years and aiming to create and enlarge the card index of ...
Irma I. Mullonen
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The How of Toponymy: A Comment on Tent’s “Approaches to Research in Toponymy”
Names, 2015 This comment which considers several ways the how of toponymy is an addendum to Tent’s (2015) where, who, when, what, and why of toponymic research. Summarizing Tent’s claims leads to identifying less–mainstream yet theoretically pertinent research concerns central to the how of toponymics.
Nash, Joshua
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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]
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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Geography notes on critical toponymy. [PDF]
, 2023 The methodological introduction to the critical toponymy session of the IGU-UGI World Geographical Congress Paris 2022 proposed actual geography notes aimed at delimiting the field of inquiry, identifying the conceptual tools offered by the ...
Gallia, Arturo +2 more
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, 2022 The classic approach to research on toponymy is limited to a linguistic focus. This reductionism has had a negative impact on the study of the toponymy of intercultural and indigenous territories, as in the case of the northern Patagonia.
Riquelme Maulén, Wladimir Esteban +1 more
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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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Toponymy of Manila since 1898: Philologia Hispalensis
, 2023 Toponymy of Manila since 1898. My last article at Philologia Hispalensis, Universidad de Sevilla. Joven-Romero, M.A. (2023). Toponymy of Manila since 1898. Philologia Hispalensis, 37(1), 55–86.
Marco Antonio Joven-Romero
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Mermaid-As-Device: Toponymy, Language and Linguistics
, 2022 Nearing the end of my editorial to the thematic section on island toponymies in Island Studies Journal v11 n2 (Nash 2016a, b), I asked: do island toponymies really exist?
Nash, Joshua
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