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- Möller, Daniel, et al.
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History of Aviculture
- 2018
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Ingår i: Aviculture : A History - A History. - : Hancock House Publishers. - 9780888390134 ; , s. 9-26, s. 9-26
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- Svanberg, Katarina, et al.
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Clinical multi-colour fluorescence imaging of malignant tumours - Initial experience
- 1998
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Ingår i: Acta Radiologica. - : SAGE Publications. - 1600-0455 .- 0284-1851. ; 39:1, s. 2-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The detection of malignant tumours relies on a variety of diagnostic procedures including X-ray images and, for hollow organs, endoscopy. The purpose of this study was to present a new technique for non-invasive tumour detection based on tissue fluorescence imaging. Material and Methods: A clinically adapted multi-colour fluorescence system was employed in the real-time imaging of malignant rumours of the skin, breast, head and neck region, and urinary bladder. Tumour detection was based on the contrast displayed in fluorescence between normal and malignant tissue, related to the selective uptake of tumour-marking agents, such as haematoporphyrin derivative (HPD) and Famine levulinic acid (ALA), and natural chromophore differences between various tissues. In order to demarcate basal cell carcinomas of the skin, ALA was applied topically 4-6 h before the fluorescence investigation. For urinary bladder tumour visualisation (transitional cell carcinoma of different stages including carcinoma in situ), ALA was instilled into the bladder 1-2 h prior to the study. Malignant and premalignant lesions in the head and neck region were imaged after i.v. injection of HPD (Photofrin). Finally, the extent of in situ and invasive carcinomas of the breast was investigated in surgically excised specimens from patients that received a low-dose injection of HPD 24 h prior to the study. The tumour imaging system was coupled to an endoscope. Fluorescence light emission from the tissue surface was induced with 100-ns-long optical pulses at 390 nm, generated from a frequency-doubled alexandrite laser. With the use of special image-splitting optics, the tumour fluorescence, intensified in a micro-channel plate, was imaged in 3 selected wavelength bands. These 3 images were processed together to form a new optimised-contrast image of the tumour. This image, updated at a rate of about 3 frames/s, was mixed with a normal colour video image of the tissue. Results: A clear demarcation from normal surrounding tissue was found during in vivo measurements of superficial bladder carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma of the skin, and leukoplakia with dysplasia of the lip, and in in vitro investigations of resected breast cancer. Conclusions: The initial clinical experience of using multi-colour fluorescence imaging has shown that the technique has the potential to reveal malignant tumour tissue, including non-invasive early carcinoma and also precancerous tissue. Further investigations are needed to fully develop the method.
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Aviculture : A History
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book discusses the history of aviculture and the cultural extent of keeping and raising birds in captivity for pleasure, companion, ornamental reasons, religious causes or various economic or practical purposes. Since the dawn of mankind, humans have kept birds in captivity. Several species are truly domesticated, while others have simply been bred in captivity for many generations. Today bird-keeping for pleasure appears to be declining in the West, mostly due to bird protection and growing awareness about conservation issues. Although aviculture has had, and still has a deep impact on human beings, it remains a neglected field within humanities and social sciences. Relatively little is published about the cultural and historical aspects of aviculture. This anthology is intended for a general audience of readers and it shows various aspects of keeping birds in captivity for pleasure, ornamental reasons or practical purposes around the world. It also deals with the great variety and complexity of the practice of keeping birds, and the specific cultures which have developed around it. The first chapter gives a brief introduction to the questions we focus on in the book, together with a historic overview from prehistory to early twenty-first century, including pet birds among natives in South America, Southeast Asia and Africa, sailors and their parrots, birds in religious rituals, primitive domesticates in various peasant societies, etc. The other chapters offer descriptive case studies in pre-modern and early modern ways of bird-keeping in various historical contexts. Modern aviculture in zoological gardens is discussed and specific bird categories within twentieth-century aviculture are described in some chapters. We encounter sophisticated bird-keeping in pre-Columbian societies, Norse trade with falcons, the European craze for songbirds, practices with captive birds used in human habitations to keep vermin under control, and how avicultural expertise is used for trying to save vanishing species by breeding them in captivity. Together these topics illustrate the great variety and complexities of bird-keeping practice. The authors are specialists in aviculture and most of them hail from the countries about which they write. This book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology, ethnobiology, history, natural history and ornithology and is intended to benchmark the development of the subject for a broader audience, which until now has had few possibilities to become acquainted with it.
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- Barthelmess, Klaus, et al.
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A watercolour of a stranded sperm whale from the late seventeenth century
- 2013
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Ingår i: Archives of Natural History. - : Edinburgh University Press. - 0260-9541 .- 1755-6260. ; 40:1, s. 38-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A manuscript album, known as Kungsboken, contains various documents of military relevance assembled during the rule of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII. Among them is a watercolour depicting a stranded sperm whale. The painting is not signed or dated but is believed to have been done around 1675. It may be an illustration of a whale that was stranded on the north German coast, then part of the Swedish empire. The painting is an interesting example of anamorphosis.
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- Bergqvist, Christina, 1957-, et al.
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The Nordic Countries
- 2011. - 1
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Ingår i: Women in Executive Power. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. - 9780415603805 ; , s. 157-170, s. 317-339
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- Bonow, Madeleine, et al.
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Karpfiskarnas tillbakagång i svenskt kosthåll
- 2013
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Ingår i: Från matproduktion till gastronomi. - Huddinge : Södertörns högskola. - 9789197501774 ; , s. 91-114, s. 91-114
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- Bonow, Madeleine, 1971-, et al.
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Monastiska fiskdammar i det senmedeltida Sverige
- 2016
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Ingår i: Biskop Brasks måltider. - Stockholm : Bokförlaget Atlantis. - 9789173538282 ; , s. 266-284
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- Bonow, Madeleine, 1971-, et al.
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Uppländska ruddammar : Ett bidrag till akvakulturens kulturhistoria
- 2012
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Ingår i: Uppland: årsbok för medlemmarna i Upplands fornminnesförening och hembygdsförbund. - : Upplands fornminnesförenings förlag. - 0566-3059. - 9789186145170 ; , s. 123-152
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- Bonow, Madeleine, 1971-, et al.
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Urban Ponds for Breeding Medicinal Leeches (Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus, 1758) in Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Meta H : historiskarkeologisk tidskrift. - Uppsala : Historiskarkeologiska föreningen. - 2002-0406 .- 2002-388X. ; , s. 63-72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Leeches and their medicinal applications are well-studied in history. In Scandinavia the use of medicinal leeches for therapy is mentioned already by Olaus Magnus in his Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555). Carl Linnaeus named the species Hirudo medicinalis. In the 1760s leeches became widely accepted as a medicament and the demand increased, not only in Sweden but all over Europe. By the 1830s around 50 million leeches were employed in hospitals every year causing a shortage of leeches all over Europe. However, the species is rare in Scandinavia. In Sweden medicinal leeches have been harvested in the southern part of the country. The local occurrence did not cover the large demand and imported leeches had to be used. In the nineteenth century, over-exploitation reduced many local populations and breeding medicinal leeches in ponds became a concern for authorities in many countries. Several farms for breeding leeches in ponds were also founded in rural and urban settings. We know very little about them, but toponyms serve to remind us of such ponds. This article aims to shed some light on the forgotten practice of breeding medicinal leeches in urban ponds in Sweden.
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- Cianfaglione, Kevin, et al.
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Archaic Food Uses of Large Graminoids in Agro Peligno Wetlands (Abruzzo, Central Italy) Compared With the European Ethnobotanical and Archaeological Literature
- 2022
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Ingår i: Wetlands (Wilmington, N.C.). - : Springer Nature. - 0277-5212 .- 1943-6246. ; 42:7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Large graminoid species, which often dominate wetland ecosystems with extensive and dense formations, are among the most indicative plants from the first human settlements, where they have been used (even transformed) for various functions ranging from food, cordage, weaving and other utilities. Wetland large graminoid foraging today represents one of the rarest and most archaic customs still in existence, as they have frequently disappeared following changes in society or the disappearance of marshes. These customs have (almost) disappeared in Europe, especially in Italy, following socio-economic changes and wetland reclamation; remaining uses can generally only be found in prehistoric traces. This research in Agro Peligno documents and describes for the first time the remains of these prehistoric uses, which are related to the ancient Peligni (or Paeligni) people. The data collected in the current field study were later compared with food uses of graminoids arising from a large spectrum of archaeological, ethnobotanical, and folkloric literature from other European areas, in a large sense. Problems and outlook regarding the loss of this traditional knowledge are also briefly discussed.
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- Cornell, Svante E., Svanberg, Ingvar
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Russia and Transcaucasia
- 1999
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Ingår i: Islam Outside the Arab World. - : Curzon, Richmond, UK.
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- Cornell, Svante E., Svanberg, Ingvar
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Turkey
- 1999
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Ingår i: Islam Outside the Arab World. - : Curzon, Richmond, UK.
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- de Vahl, Erik, et al.
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"Cow Healers Use It for Both Horses and Cattle" : The Rise and Fall of the Ethnoveterinary Use of Peucedanum ostruthium (L.) Koch (fam. Apiaceae) in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: PLANTS. - : MDPI. - 2223-7747. ; 12:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Masterwort, Peucedanum ostruthium (L.) Koch, is an Apiaceae species originally native to the mountain areas of central and southern Europe. Written sources show that it was used in northern Europe. This study explores the cultivation history of masterwort and its past use in Sweden. Although only few details are known about the history of this taxon, it represents a cultural relict plant of an intentionally introduced species known in Sweden as early as the Middle Ages. In Sweden, the masterwort was mainly used as an ethnoveterinary herbal remedy from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. However, medicinal manuals, pharmacopoeias and some ethnographical records indicate that it was once also used in remedies for humans. Today, this species remains as a living biocultural heritage in rural areas, especially on the surviving shielings, which were once used as mountain pastures in Dalecarlia, and at former crofts that were inhabited by cattle owners in the forest areas of southern Sweden.
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- de Vahl, Erik, et al.
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Traditional uses and practices of edible cultivated Allium species (fam. Amaryllidaceae) in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. - : Springer Nature. - 1746-4269. ; 18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: While the utilitarian crops grown in vicarage gardens in pre-industrial Sweden have been fairly well documented, our knowledge of plants cultivated for food among the peasants and crofters is limited. Nevertheless, garden vegetables and herbs played a much more important role in the diet of the rural population from a nutritional point of view than, say, wild plants, at least in the southern part of the country. This study aims to explore the importance of edible cultivated onions, Allium, and their various cultivars and old landraces that were once-and in some cases still are-grown in home gardens.Methods: This study is based on documentation collected from national surveys carried out by the Swedish National Programme for Diversity of Cultivated Plants (POM), and from an intense search for references to the cultivation and use of carious onions in the historic garden literature, herbals and ethnographic records found in responses to folklife questionnaires.Results: The rural population in pre-industrial Sweden cultivated various kinds of bulb onions. They are known under various folk names, although their taxonomic affiliation has been unclear. Many folk taxa have been classified and named by their use, while other names refer to the practices associated with the cultivation system. These onions were often described as especially well suited for storage over winter. Onions have had a wide range of uses in Sweden. In some parts of Sweden, onions were eaten during church service in order to keep the churchgoers awake. Several types of onion have commonly been used as condiments in pickled herring dishes, spreads, sauces, foods made of blood and offal, dumplings, meat dishes and soups. Garlic was used for medicinal and magical purposes, as well as for ethnoveterinary medicine. Onion skins have traditionally been used for dyeing eggs at Easter.Conclusion: Genetic diversity of vegetables and garden crops represents a critical resource to achieve and maintain global food security. Therefore, ethnobiologists studying agricultural societies should place more focus on old landraces, cultivars and cultivation practices in order to understand the importance of garden crops for a society. They are an important element of sustainability.
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- Edlund, Lars-Erik, et al.
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Mjölke - Rallarros : Epilobium angustifolium
- 2005
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Ingår i: Människan och floran. - : Centrum för biologisk mångfald, Uppsala. - 9146177892 ; , s. 193-194
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- Fredga, Karl, et al.
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An early (1834) illustration of the wood lemming, Myopus schisticolor (Lilljeborg, 1844), from Finland
- 2011
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Ingår i: Archives of Natural History. - : Edinburgh University Press. - 0260-9541 .- 1755-6260. ; 38:2, s. 214-219
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The wood lemming, Myopus schisticolor, was described as a new species by the Swedish zoologist Wilhelm Lilljeborg in 1844 from a specimen captured in Norway the year before. With the original description was a fine hand-coloured lithograph by the artist Magnus Korner. A Latin translation of the description published later that year also used an illustration by Korner, but it was of lesser quality. However, the species had been observed, described and depicted earlier, but these renderings never reached the scientific community. In 2008 and 2009 respectively, one illustration of the wood lemming made by the Finnish-born artist Wilhelm von Wright was sold twice at auctions in Stockholm. The illustration is dated 1834 and shows a specimen that was found dead at the artist's native home, Haminalaks, in Kuopio parish, Central Finland, that year. However, an accurate description of the species had already been made in 1765, by a group of young naturalists on a tour in the Swedish province Dalecarlia.
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Geten i Sverige : kulturhistoriska och samtida perspektiv
- 2017
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Föredrag vid ett symposium i Uppsala den 20 november 2015.Åtta forskare från olika områden tecknar här för första gången en bild av tamgetens betydelse och tillvaro i Sverige från stenålder till våra dagar ur ekonomiska, kulturhistoriska, språkliga och veterinärmedicinska perspektiv.
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- Gustavsson, Sven, et al.
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Förord
- 1995
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Ingår i: Bosnier. - : Uppsala University. ; , s. 178-
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- Gyllin, Roger & Svanberg, Ingvar & Söhrman, Ingmar (ed.)
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Bröd och salt: Svenska kulturkontakter med öst. En vänbok till Sven Gustavsson
- 1998
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- På ryska betyder "bröd och salt" gästfrihet. Brödet och saltet utgjorde viktiga symboliska inslag i det gamla bondesamhället. Att bjuda besökande på bröd och salt är en mycket gammal tradition inte bara i Ryssland, Vitryssland och Ukraina utan i större de
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- Görman, Ulf, et al.
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Konversion
- 2008
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Ingår i: Religion i Sverige. - 9789175041995 ; , s. 63-65
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- This book chapter is a short presentation of different understandings of the concept of conversion, research on conversion, and the complexity of using this concept to describe religious mobility today. This applies not least to conversion where religions other than Christianity are involved. Conversion is also discussed in relation to secularisation and individualisation of religion.
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- Herjulfsdotter Andersson, Ritwa, 1965, et al.
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Kärleksört (Sedum telephium)
- 2005
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Ingår i: Människan och floran. - : Wahlström & Widstrand. - 9146177892
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Historical Aquaculture in Northern Europe
- 2016. - 1
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- How were fishponds introduced, farmed and spread in Scandinavia and the Baltic Region in early modern times? What was their economic, social and religious importance? Which fish species were significant and why?This book uncovers a long, now broken, tradition that barely left traces in the written record or physical environment. Its broad and multidisciplinary scope highlights the situation from medieval times until the late nineteenth century. Besides Scandinavia and the Baltic States, insights from England are also introduced.Several socio-cultural domains have been identified: late medieval monastic fishponds; late medieval aristocratic fishponds associated with castles and manors; seventeenth and eighteenth century ponds rectory ponds as well as urban ponds from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century.
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Hunden i kult och religion : på gränsen mellan heligt och profant
- 2009
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Hunden och människan har följts åt sedan urminnes tider, något som har varit till fördel för båda arter. Hunden har bland annat fått skydd och föda, men samtidigt kunnat sprida sig över hela jorden. Människan har förstått att använda hunden för en rad ändamål, bl.a. har den fått vakta hennes bostäder och boskap, burit och släpat hennes ägodelar, givit sällskap och förnöjelse, samt tjänat som pälsproducent, medicinkälla och köttreserv. Hunden har dessutom spelat en viktig roll i människans religiösa och rituella liv. Mångsidigheten i hur hunden ingått i människans världsbilder vittnar om den komplexitet som kännetecknar banden mellan tamdjuret och dess ägare.
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- Hällzon, Patrick, 1972-, et al.
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Ethnobotany and Utilization of the Oleaster, Elaeagnus angustifolia L. (fam. Elaeagnaceae), in Eastern Turkestan
- 2022
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Ingår i: Orientalia Suecana. - : Uppsala University. - 0078-6578 .- 2001-7324. ; 71, s. 38-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Documentation of the utilization of trees among Turkic-speaking communities in Eastern Turkestan is sparse. This article explores the Elaeagnus angustifolia L. which historically had numerous functions and uses among Eastern Turkestani sedentary Muslims and which still plays an important role in the day-to-day life of Uyghurs.This tree, with the local name jigdä, provides a number of ecosystem services in the region, including provisional (food, energy, raw materials), ornamental (healing), regulating (prevention of soilerosion), and cultural (language expressions, toponyms). Several semi-domesticated or domesticated tree species were cultivated in the locals’ orchards, while others were harvested in the wild.Its fruits were used as food and for preparing beverages, while some of its other parts were fed to livestock, its timber and branches became materials for charcoal, handicrafts and construction, and it also served a wide range of medicinal and cosmetic purposes. The abundance of proverbs, customs and taboos related to the tree serves as an indication of the important role it played, and continues toplay, in the day-to-day life of the local population. With such a range of properties, the jigdä tree indeed qualified as a keystone species for the population of Eastern Turkistan.
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- Hällzon, Patrick, 1972-, et al.
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Fish and Fishing in Eastern Turkestan: : A Contribution To Central Asian Ethnoichthyology
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Uyghur Studies (Uluslararası Uygur Araştırmaları Dergisi). - : Uluslararasi Uygur Arastirmalari Dergisi, Adem Oger. - 2458-827X. ; 16, s. 192-214
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article provides some glimpses into the importance and many uses of fish in Eastern Turkestan in the late 19th, early 20th century and today. Apart from a few scholarly articles, mainly dealing with the Loplik and Dolan, little has been published on fish among the Turkic speaking Muslims of Eastern Turkestan. According to a common perception among foreign observers in Central Asia, the sedentary Turkic Muslims of Eastern Turkestan, i.e. contemporary Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, were underutilizing the available fish resources. Despite the fact that fishing and the local population’s knowledge about fish is poorly documented, fish seems to have been used for more than food, especially along the rivers of the region. This essay reviews the historical use and economic importance of fish in Eastern Turkestan in areas like food and traditional medicine. Other aspects discussed in the text are naming, folk taxonomy, mythology and additional facets of the importance fish among the Uyghurs today. Finally, the article will also present examples from oral literature such as folktales, proverbs, poetry, folk songs and riddles mentioning fish.
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- Hällzon, Patrick, 1972-, et al.
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Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert : Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. - : BioMed Central (BMC). - 1746-4269. ; 20:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BackgroundMost fisher-gatherer communities we know of utilized a limited number of natural resources for their livelihood. The Turkic-speaking Loptuq (exonym Loplik, Loplyk) in the Lower Tarim River basin, Taklamakan desert, Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang), were no exception. Their habitat, the Lop Nor marsh and lake area, was surrounded by desert and very poor in plant species; the Loptuq had to make the most of a handful of available biological resources for housing, furniture, clothing and fabric, fishnets and traps, tools and other equipment. The taxa used by the Loptuq were documented by foreign explorers at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, prior to the forced resettlement of the group in the 1950s and subsequent destruction of their language, lifestyle and culture.Methods and sourcesEthnobiology explores the relationship between humans and their environment, including the use of biological resources for different purposes. In several aspects, historical ethnobiology is more challenging; it studies this relationship in the past and therefore cannot verify results with informants. As the present study discusses an extinct culture on the basis of literary and material sources, we apply a method called source pluralism. This approach allows the inclusion and combination of a wide range of data and materials, even scraps of information from various sources, with the aim to understand phenomena which are sparsely mentioned in historical records.Travel reports by Swedish, British, German, American and Russian explorers together with linguistic data provide the most important sources for understanding Loptuq interaction with the environment and its biota. Especially the large number of toponyms and phytonyms recorded by the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin and materials from his expeditions, including voucher specimens kept in Stockholm in the herbarium of the Swedish Natural History Museum, and objects of material culture in the collections of the Ethnographical Museum, are crucial for our analysis about local knowledge among the Loptuq. Illustrations and photographs provide us with additional information.ResultsThe question of how the Loptuq managed to survive at the fringe of a desert, a marsh and a lake which changed its location, intrigued all foreign visitors to the Lop Nor. The Loptuq’s main livelihood was fishing, hunting and gathering, and their material culture provided by plants and other organic materials included their usage, consumption and trade. Only a handful of species formed the basis of the Loptuq material culture, but they had learned to use these specific plants for a variety of purposes. The most important of these were Lop hemp, Poacynum pictum (Schrenk) Baill., the riparian tree Euphrates poplar, Populus euphratica Olivier, and the aquatic common reed, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. Several species of tamarisk were used for fuel and building fences. A few plants were also harvested for making foodstuffs such as snacks and potherbs. In addition, the Loptuq also used fur, bird skins, down, feathers, mammal bones and fish bones for their material needs. The habitat provided cultural ecological services such as motifs for their folklore, linguistic expressions and songs, and the Loptuq engaged in small-scale bartering of plant products and furs with itinerant traders, which ensured them with a supply of metal for making tools.ConclusionThis article discusses the now extinct Loptuq material culture as it existed more than a hundred years ago, and how the scarce biological resources of their desert and marsh habitat were utilized. Loptuq adaptation strategies to the environment and local knowledge, transmitted over generations, which contributed to their survival and subsistence, were closely connected with the use of biological resources.For this study, a comprehensive approach has been adopted for the complex relationships between human, biota and landscape. The Loptuq are today largely ignored or deleted from history for political reasons and are seldom, if at all, mentioned in modern sources about the Lop Nor area. Their experience and knowledge, however, could be useful today, in a period of rapid climate change, for others living in or at the fringe of expanding deserts.
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- Janson, Sven, et al.
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Population genetic structure of crucian carp (Carassius carassius) in man-made ponds and wild populations in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Aquaculture International. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0967-6120 .- 1573-143X. ; 23:1, s. 359-368
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Although once popular prior to the last century, the aquaculture of crucian carp Carassius carassius (L. 1758) in Sweden gradually fell from favour. This is the first genetic comparison of crucian carp from historic man-made ponds in the Scandinavian Peninsula. The aim was to identify old populations without admixture and to compare the relationship of pond populations from different provinces in Sweden. In total, nine microsatellite loci from 234 individuals from 20 locations in varied parts of Sweden were analysed. The genetic distances of crucian carp populations indicated that the populations in the southernmost province of Sweden, Scania, shared a common history. A pond population in the province Småland also showed a common inheritance with this group. In the province Uppland, further north in Sweden, the population genetic distances suggested a much more complex history of crucian carp distributions in the ponds. The data showed that there are some ponds with potentially old populations without admixture, but also that several ponds might have been stocked with fish from many sources.
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