Abstract Placenames are seemingly universal, with the potential to reveal different systems of organizing information in everyday communication. We report on relationship between placenames Jahai, an indigenous language spoken by Jahai people Malay Peninsula, and environment. Our approach explores tendency organize names using a hierarchy kinship associated cnεl, mythological entities origin st...

The role of populism in mobilising support for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union has been well noted. But a key feature populist politics – use religious discourses largely overlooked. This article addresses this gap by exploring way which Leave campaign framed Brexit quasi-religious and mythological terms. Three core themes are identified: (1) that British ‘people’ had unique to pla...

an amalgamation of ancient mythological and linguistic features from ghabrestan tepe, this article is disposed to introduce some of the oldest findings especially about the then prevailing myths. it can possibly be said that the oldest motifs carved by men, on bones, stones or on cave walls have been the depictions of myths related to homo sapiens; however, even after the lapse of thousands of ...

We aim to explore how indigenous peoples observe and ascribe meaning to change. The case study involves two Quechua-speaking farmer communities from mountainous areas near Cochabamba, Bolivia. Taking climate change as a starting point, we found that, first, farmers often associate their observations of climate change with other social and environmental changes, such as value change in the commu...

This paper deals with the ethnobotany of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) an ancient crop having its origin and early domestication in South Asia and ethnobotanically very important. Due to its manifold uses in cultural and social life of ethnic people of Asia with special reference to South and South East Asia, has very early domestication and evolutionary history. In India, its history begins from...

illuminating account of the "generational family" prevalent in Middle European peasant society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in which unlike England households typically comprised three generations living together, often under the same roof. The authors carefully distinguish this generational family from the largely mythological "stem family", and show its rootedness in the largel...

Based on ideas of quantum theory of open systems and psychological dual system theory we propose two novel versions of Non-Boolean logic. The first version can be interpreted in our opinion as simplified description of primitive (mythological) thinking and the second one as the toy model of everyday human reasoning in which aside from logical deduction, heuristic elements and beliefs also play ...