Ethnophysiography and place and space studies among indigenous peoples: key themes and literature review
The article is a review of contemporary research on ethnophysiography and place and space studies. Ethnophysiography is a new interdisciplinary field at the intersection of cultural geography, linguistics and social anthropology. It explores how different communities perceive and conceptualize landscape features and geographical objects. The author suggests introducing the methods and theoretical approaches of ethnophysiography in research on landscape and place names among the Indigenous peoples of the North and Siberia. This region, with its numerous language minorities, is unrepresented in ethnophysiographic cross-cultural studies.
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этнофизиография, исследования пространства и места, ландшафтная терминология, топонимика, геоонтология, ethnophysiography, place and space studies, landscape terminology, place names, geoontologyAuthors
| Name | Organization | |
| Mamontova Nadezhda Aleksandrovna | University of Oxford; Lomonosov Moscow State University | nadezhda.mamontova@chch.ox.ac.uk |
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Ethnophysiography and place and space studies among indigenous peoples: key themes and literature review | Sibirskie Istoricheskie Issledovaniia – Siberian Historical Research. 2019. № 4. DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/26/11
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