7 Citations
The bear in Eurasian plant names: motivations and models
- LinguisticsJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
- 2017
The unevenness of bear phytonyms in the chosen languages was not related to the size of the language nor the present occurence of the Brown Bear in the region, but may, at least to certain extent, berelated to the amount of the historical ethnolinguistic research done on the selected languages.
The Myth of Medusa: Benvenuto Cellini and the “Loggia de’ Lanzi” in Florence
- Art
- 2016
The statuary group of Perseus and Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini, kept in the “Loggia de’ Lanzi” in Florence, Italy, is a major artistic and metallurgical feat. The present paper will outline the…
Dietetic use of wild animals and traditional cultural beliefs in the Mro community of Bangladesh: an insight into biodiversity conservation
- Environmental Science
- 2014
Meeting the demand for regular animal protein, for human consumption, through hunting wild animals is a worldwide, common phenomenon in traditional communities. Hunting, which constitutes an…
Macaque Tourism: Implications for Their Management and Conservation
- Biology
- 2013
It is imperative that programs that are interested in utilizing tools such as ecotourism for species conservation are well-planned to reduce the probable threat to free-ranging macaque populations and their natural habitats.
Subsistence and Resource Availability in Variably Isolated Insular Environments : Analysis of Zooarchaeological and Ceramic Remains from Three Sites in the Kuril Islands , Russian Far East By
- Environmental Science
- 2007
Ritual und Realität
- Philosophy
- 1998
Es gibt einen Aspekt der Wissenschaftlichkeit, der von den fruhesten Schriftgelehrten des Nahen Ostens und Zeichendeuter bis zu den zeitgenossischen Akademikern bestehen blieb: das aufregende…
Torture and execution of surrogate kinsmen in two societies: the Ainu and the Tupinamba.
- SociologyThe Journal of social psychology
- 1975
Examination of rituals of two geographically distinct aboriginal groups, the Ainu of northern Japan and the Tupinamba of Brazil, suggests that these similar rituals may have provided effective mechanisms for the refocusing of ingroup aggression upon nonmembers, and hence acted as safeguards against disruptive activity within the group.