Sökning: "names of islands"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden names of islands.

  1. 1. Ortnamnen i Göteborgs och Bohus län. 19 : Ortnamnen i Tanums härad. 2, Naturnamn

    Författare :Maria Löfdahl; Svante Strandberg; Staffan Nyström; Institutet för språk och folkminnen; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bohuslän; Tanum; place-names; natural names; property names; semantics; dialects; onomasticon; Naturnamn; ortnamn; Namnforskning; Name Care and Name Planning; Place Names; Ortnamn; Scandinavian languages;

    Sammanfattning : This book is a presentation and a linguistic interpretation of the place-names of the district of Tanum in the former County of Gothenburg and Bohus in western Sweden. The studied names consist of names of lakes, rivers, islands, mountains etc., of different units of cultivated land and of other entities such as bridges and roads. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Studier över önamnen i Luleå skärgård

    Författare :Else Britt Lindblom; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; names of islands; place-names; place-name structure; compounds; place nomenclature; land uplift; uplifted areas; colonization; personal names; önamn; Luleå skärgård; Namnforskning; Name Care and Name Planning; Place Names; Ortnamn;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to present and examine the names of the islands in the archipelago of Luleå innorthern Sweden. The basis for the studies is a collection of names, which contains written forms excerpted from sources from the 14th to the 20th century and local pronunciations of old as well as modern names. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Shell Age Economics : Marine Gathering in the Kingdom of Tonga, Polynesia

    Författare :Thomas Malm; Humanekologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; chieftainship; cosmology; demography; marine tenure systems; tragedy of the commons ; seaweeds; marine invertebrates; gender roles; indigenous knowledge; maritime anthropology; Tongans; Tonga; Oceania; Polynesia; totemism; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This monograph analyses marine gathering in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga from ecological, social and cognitive perspectives. The overarching issues explored are (1) the significance of marine gathering in the past and present, (2) how seaweeds and marine invertebrates have been perceived, classified, named and used, (3) how they have been implicated in social relations, and (4) how the integration of the islands into the modern world system has affected the marine environment and the exploitation of its resources. LÄS MER