Spatial knowledge, language, and cognitive adaptation to landscape among Siberian Ewenki

Thesis

This thesis examines the relationships between spatial knowledge, adaptation, and mobility through the analysis of landscape terminology and place names among Ewenki, one of the hunting and reindeer herding Indigenous communities of Siberia. Ewenki have the biggest area of distribution in Eurasia among hunter-gatherers. It studies how this knowledge is linked to and reflected in people’s patterns and understanding of mobility, the ontology of geospatial domain, and cognitive adaptatio...

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Authors: Mamontova, N

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-wrdv7mbk6
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: ethnophysiography; indigenous geography; geoontology; Ewenki; space and place studies
• Subjects: Human geography; Toponomastics; Ethnophysiography