#ethnology
Morana effigy Ethnographic Museum of the National Museum, Prague.
(Národopisné muzeum, Praha)
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“Swedish folk tradition makes a distinction between ghosts whose identity is known, called spöken (singular spöke), and ghosts of unknown identity, called gastar (singular gast). The latter, following the rule of fear of the unknown, are more terrifying than the former and share certain characteristics of the nature-beings.”—John Lindow,Swedish Legends and Folktales
A Very Unfortunate News
Ms. Christina Calderòn from Patagonia (Chile), the last known Yagana speaker of Yahgan spoken by the native Yahgan Tribe recently passed away due to heart attack. Yahgan is now an extinct language.
However, her 11 yo great grand daughter Tamala recorded many Yahgan vocabularies that Christina taught her which are displayed in 6:47 time mark of this video! I have nothing, but pure respect and gratitude for her! Thank you, Tamala! Preserve the legacy of your Ukara-yakara [ウカラヤカラ]!
First Nations maps of (most of) North America prior to European arrival
Map of original locations and names of the indigenous First Nations in what is now Canada and the continental United States (pre-European arrival) - designed by Aaron Carapella
Indigenous Nations of México map (pre-European arrival) - original names and locations
(***Click title links to view in extremely high resolution for easy readability***)
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“All humans are born with the potential to live thousands of different lives, yet we end up having lived only one. One of the central tasks of anthropology consists of giving accounts of some of the other lives we could have led.”
Clifford Geertz
