Gertrud Boden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gertrud Boden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gertrud |
| FAMILY NAME | Boden |
| SIGNATURE | BODEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3621-4305 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Flux’ or ‘wind’?
The last two decades have witnessed an increased anthropological interest in human–nonhuman relations among Khoisan peoples as part of a more general trend involving scholarly interest in ‘(new) animism’ ( Bird-David 1999 ) and the anthropology of ontologies ( Kohn 2015 ), or in how people experience, understand and categorise what exists. Low (2007 ; 2008 ; 2009 ; 2014 ) proposed that all Khoisan peoples understand ‘wind’, ‘essence’ or ‘potency’…
Rizzo, Lorena
Anthropos , Seite 329 - 330
Who Were the Ancestors of the Namibian !Xoon? A Preliminary Approach Based on Oral and Selected Written Sources
Anthropos , Seite 363 - 366
The Documentation of Place Names in an Endangered Language Environment
The West !Xoon variety of the Taa language complex is spoken by a small community of former hunter-gatherers in southeastern Namibia whose presence is virtually invisible on official topographical maps. This article presents the results of the documentation of !Xoon place names and describes their semantic sources and grammatical constructions. It further discusses how the high number of alternative names for the same place might be related to th…
From Utility to Perceptual Salience
This article presents a model of the southern Kalahari landscape that in the past gave clues for orientation and usability to Taa-speaking hunter-gatherers. Lexical and conceptual changes are detected with respect to what was formerly the most important landform for survival: pans as water sources and sites suitable for camping and foraging. A part-to-whole-change in lexical semantics is paralleled by a conceptual change from a predominance of no…
From Utility to Perceptual Salience
This article presents a model of the southern Kalahari landscape that in the past gave clues for orientation and usability to Taa-speaking hunter-gatherers. Lexical and conceptual changes are detected with respect to what was formerly the most important landform for survival: pans as water sources and sites suitable for camping and foraging. A part-to-whole-change in lexical semantics is paralleled by a conceptual change from a predominance of no…
The Documentation of Place Names in an Endangered Language Environment
The West !Xoon variety of the Taa language complex is spoken by a small community of former hunter-gatherers in southeastern Namibia whose presence is virtually invisible on official topographical maps. This article presents the results of the documentation of !Xoon place names and describes their semantic sources and grammatical constructions. It further discusses how the high number of alternative names for the same place might be related to th…
Who Were the Ancestors of the Namibian !Xoon? A Preliminary Approach Based on Oral and Selected Written Sources
Anthropos , Seite 363 - 366
Rizzo, Lorena
Anthropos , Seite 329 - 330
‘Flux’ or ‘wind’?
The last two decades have witnessed an increased anthropological interest in human–nonhuman relations among Khoisan peoples as part of a more general trend involving scholarly interest in ‘(new) animism’ ( Bird-David 1999 ) and the anthropology of ontologies ( Kohn 2015 ), or in how people experience, understand and categorise what exists. Low (2007 ; 2008 ; 2009 ; 2014 ) proposed that all Khoisan peoples understand ‘wind’, ‘essence’ or ‘potency’…
Geography (4 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (2 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)