Sabira Ståhlberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 183937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabira Ståhlberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabira |
| FAMILY NAME | Ståhlberg |
| SIGNATURE | STÅHLBERG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-1152-1989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Caspian Tigers and Loptuq Activity Contexts in Eastern Turkestan
Until a hundred years ago, Caspian tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) shared habitat with the Loptuq people who lived along the Tarim River, and lake Lop Nur in Eastern Turkestan. Although their paths crossed, humans and tigers avoided each other and did not compete for resources; only occasionally did a tiger kill cattle and horses or humans kill a tiger. The tigers fed mainly on wild boar (Sus scrofa nigripes) while the Loptuq, for religious reaso…
Tatar Teaching and Learning Resources in Finland
Tatar-language education has been organised by the Tatar communities in Finland for more than a century. This traditional minority, today comprising less than a thousand members, was already literate and valued education on arriving in Finland in the second half of the nineteenth century. With very little official support, they have continued to transmit their language, culture, and religion through original and adapted teaching and learning reso…
Gold from nature’s pantry: A diachronic study of Rubus chamaemorus L. (Rosaceae) in swedish gastronomy and economy
This historical overview reveals that local berry picking is decreasing in recent decades. Fluctuations in local weather and lack of foragers influence the availability of cloudberry on the market. In 2025, there were neither enough workers nor berries, and the prices of cloudberry products have risen steeply. The cloudberry, which has enjoyed several decades of popularity both in haute cuisine and among ordinary consumers, will perhaps return to…
How funnel chanterelle (Craterellus tubaeformis) became an urban forager favorite in Scandinavia
Background Peasants in preindustrial Norway and Sweden refused to touch edible macrofungi even during times of scarcity or famines, although this free food resource was abundantly available and authorities encouraged gathering mushrooms to enrich the diet since the eighteenth century. Urbanization and gradual changes of attitudes have turned mushroom gathering in forests and meadows into an important leisure activity. In recent decades, city fora…
How Many Pärämäts Can You Eat
How many pärämäts can you eat?" When Tatars meet, this question is asked not only to compare stomach capacity: by triggering pleasant food memories with a high degree of commensality, they confirm a common identity and cultural bonds that Tatars and especially Mishär Tatars share internationally. Pärämäts, pärämäç, peremets, peremech, or even bälesh - this favourite food carries many names and variations. The round, fried or oven-baked pastries c…
Plasmodial slime moulds (myxomycetes) in Swedish and Nordic folk biology
Background Folk biology commonly contains knowledge of many more taxa than those of immediate economic importance. Species with little or no practical use are, however, often overlooked by ethnobiological research. An example are a few Myxomycetes taxa which played an important role in the folk biology and beliefs of pre-industrial Sweden and adjacent Nordic countries, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Such organisms are not of less interest for the u…
Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900
Background Most fisher-gatherer communities we know of utilized a limited number of natural resources for their livelihood. The Turkic-speaking Loptuq (exonym Loplik, Loplyk) in the Lower Tarim River basin, Taklamakan desert, Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang), were no exception. Their habitat, the Lop Nor marsh and lake area, was surrounded by desert and very poor in plant species; the Loptuq had to make the most of a handful of available biological r…
Christian Mauder: In the Sultan’s Salon. Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516)
Review of Christian Mauder: In the Sultan’s Salon. Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516). (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and texts volume 169/1). Leiden: Brill 2021. 2 volumes. ISSN 0929-2403; ISBN 978-90-04-43576-6 (hardback, set); ISBN 978-90-04-47100-9 (hardback, vol. 1); ISBN 978-90-04-47101-6 (hardback, vol. 2); ISBN 978-90-04-44421-8 (e-book)
Historical and Contemporary Uses of Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides L., in the Nordic Countries
Human interest in certain plants can vary considerably over time. At the end of the twentieth century, the orange-yellow fruits of sea buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides Linnaeus, became a trendy addition to the diet in some Nordic countries, especially in Sweden and Finland. The soft and juicy fruits are very rich in vitamin B12, C and E, and this fact has greatly contributed to its popularity among contemporary healthconscious consumers. As a cult…
Traditional sports and games among the Sámi people in Northern Fennoscandia (Sápmi): An Ethnobiological Perspective
Introduction Modern sports equipment is nowadays manufactured industrially according to globally accepted and standardized models, but traditionally tools for play and games were prepared from materials found in the local environment. The objective of this article is to investigate various aspects of Sámi local knowledge about organisms used for their material culture of traditional sports and games in northern Fennoscandia (Sápmi). What function…
Folk Knowledge in Southern Siberia in the 1770s: Johan Peter Falck’s Ethnobiological Observations
The southern Siberian Turkic groups were mostly unknown to outsiders when the Swedish scientist Johan Peter Falck (1732–1774) visited their settlements in the early 1770s. Falck led one of the expeditions dispatched between 1768 and 1774 by the Russian Academy of Sciences to different parts of the Russian Empire. As a botanist, zoologist, ethnographer and linguist, during his journeys he recorded information not only about the environment but al…
The family tree – a challenge for multicultural learning: Some aspects of Swedish, Serbian and Bulgarian kinship terminology
To discover the essential differences in cultural and linguistic patterns of a certain society, we need to look no further than to the most common relations of all – those between family members. When studying, working and living in, or for instance marrying into another culture, we must not only learn, but also acquire and utilise a whole new set of relationships and terms in order to be able to function and communicate. Without this knowledge w…
Window to a world beyond: Göran Schildt’s journey to Bulgaria and Romania in 1963 and some multilingual and multicultural strategies
International traveller and acclaimed Swedish-language author Göran Schildt sailed in the Black Sea in the summer of 1963. He was a well-read scholar with a deep interest in the Antiquity and a seasoned traveller with a vast experience of multilingual and multicultural situations. This was the first and last visit of his yacht Daphne to the Black Sea and the Eastern Bloc. Through the eyes of this keen observer, a small aperture can be detected am…
Wild European dewberry, Rubus caesius L. (fam. Rosaceae), in Sweden: From traditional regional consumption to exotic dessert at the Nobel Prize banquet
European dewberry, Rubus caesius L . (fam. Rosaceae), played an insignificant role as local food in Sweden before the twentieth century. It is known as salmbär ‘Solomon berries’ in the severely endangered regional language Gutnish, spoken in the Baltic Sea islands Gotland and Fårö. From a largely ignored food product with limited regional use, European dewberry has made a quick culinary journey to the top. Today dewberry jam is popular throughout…
A fly in amber? Nordic-Balkan citizen diplomacy and cultural connections then and now
Active citizen diplomacy and cultural connections between the Nordic countries and the Balkans date their beginnings to the eighteenth century. The contacts between ordinary people in Finland and Bulgaria, Sweden and Serbia are a little researched but important aspect of the common history of Europe, created not by states or officials, but by individuals and associations. In the first period until World War II, cultural actors such as writers and…
Fisher-foragers Amidst the Reeds: Loptuq Perception of Waterscapes in the Lower Tarim Area
Toponyms and hydronyms encode important information about human perceptions of the environment in a specific context. This article discusses the Loptuq, a group of Turkic-speakers, who until the 1950s lived as fishers-foragers at the Lower Tarim River, Eastern Turkestan (contemporary Xinjiang, China), and their use of common reed (Phragmites australis) as an example for the close connection between language, culture, social relations, economic ac…
Horsemeat in the culinary traditions of the Mishär Tatar diaspora in the eastern Baltic Sea region: Cultural and Historical Aspects
Hippophagy is still unthinkable in many European countries, but in the Mishär Tatar culinary tradition, horsemeat products play an important role. Part of the Mishär Tatars, originally from Nizhny Novgorod province (Russia), migrated to the eastern Baltic Sea region in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. They continued to slaughter horses and eat horseflesh, despite being opposed and stigmatized by the majority in their new surroundings. …
Wildmen in Central Asia
Anthropos , Seite 51 - 62
Loplyk Fishermen. Ecological Adaptation in the Taklamakan Desert
Anthropos , Seite 423 - 440
Gathering Food from Rodent Nests in Siberia
This historical study analyzes the little known practice of gathering food resources from rodent stores in Siberia, with comparative perspectives from northern Europe and North America. Until the 19th century, taking roots, tubers, corms, bulbs, seeds and nuts from rodent food stores was a widespread practice by several ethnic groups in Siberia to supplement their diets. Rodents in northern areas, for example the root vole (Microtus oeconomus), d…
Gathering Food from Rodent Nests in Siberia
This historical study analyzes the little known practice of gathering food resources from rodent stores in Siberia, with comparative perspectives from northern Europe and North America. Until the 19th century, taking roots, tubers, corms, bulbs, seeds and nuts from rodent food stores was a widespread practice by several ethnic groups in Siberia to supplement their diets. Rodents in northern areas, for example the root vole (Microtus oeconomus), d…
Loplyk Fishermen. Ecological Adaptation in the Taklamakan Desert
Anthropos , Seite 423 - 440
Horsemeat in the culinary traditions of the Mishär Tatar diaspora in the eastern Baltic Sea region: Cultural and Historical Aspects
Hippophagy is still unthinkable in many European countries, but in the Mishär Tatar culinary tradition, horsemeat products play an important role. Part of the Mishär Tatars, originally from Nizhny Novgorod province (Russia), migrated to the eastern Baltic Sea region in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. They continued to slaughter horses and eat horseflesh, despite being opposed and stigmatized by the majority in their new surroundings. …
How funnel chanterelle (Craterellus tubaeformis) became an urban forager favorite in Scandinavia
Background Peasants in preindustrial Norway and Sweden refused to touch edible macrofungi even during times of scarcity or famines, although this free food resource was abundantly available and authorities encouraged gathering mushrooms to enrich the diet since the eighteenth century. Urbanization and gradual changes of attitudes have turned mushroom gathering in forests and meadows into an important leisure activity. In recent decades, city fora…
Traditional sports and games among the Sámi people in Northern Fennoscandia (Sápmi): An Ethnobiological Perspective
Introduction Modern sports equipment is nowadays manufactured industrially according to globally accepted and standardized models, but traditionally tools for play and games were prepared from materials found in the local environment. The objective of this article is to investigate various aspects of Sámi local knowledge about organisms used for their material culture of traditional sports and games in northern Fennoscandia (Sápmi). What function…
Fisher-foragers Amidst the Reeds: Loptuq Perception of Waterscapes in the Lower Tarim Area
Toponyms and hydronyms encode important information about human perceptions of the environment in a specific context. This article discusses the Loptuq, a group of Turkic-speakers, who until the 1950s lived as fishers-foragers at the Lower Tarim River, Eastern Turkestan (contemporary Xinjiang, China), and their use of common reed (Phragmites australis) as an example for the close connection between language, culture, social relations, economic ac…
Loplyk Fishermen. Ecological Adaptation in the Taklamakan Desert
Anthropos , Seite 423 - 440
Gathering Food from Rodent Nests in Siberia
This historical study analyzes the little known practice of gathering food resources from rodent stores in Siberia, with comparative perspectives from northern Europe and North America. Until the 19th century, taking roots, tubers, corms, bulbs, seeds and nuts from rodent food stores was a widespread practice by several ethnic groups in Siberia to supplement their diets. Rodents in northern areas, for example the root vole (Microtus oeconomus), d…
Wildmen in Central Asia
Anthropos , Seite 51 - 62
A fly in amber? Nordic-Balkan citizen diplomacy and cultural connections then and now
Active citizen diplomacy and cultural connections between the Nordic countries and the Balkans date their beginnings to the eighteenth century. The contacts between ordinary people in Finland and Bulgaria, Sweden and Serbia are a little researched but important aspect of the common history of Europe, created not by states or officials, but by individuals and associations. In the first period until World War II, cultural actors such as writers and…
Fisher-foragers Amidst the Reeds: Loptuq Perception of Waterscapes in the Lower Tarim Area
Toponyms and hydronyms encode important information about human perceptions of the environment in a specific context. This article discusses the Loptuq, a group of Turkic-speakers, who until the 1950s lived as fishers-foragers at the Lower Tarim River, Eastern Turkestan (contemporary Xinjiang, China), and their use of common reed (Phragmites australis) as an example for the close connection between language, culture, social relations, economic ac…
Horsemeat in the culinary traditions of the Mishär Tatar diaspora in the eastern Baltic Sea region: Cultural and Historical Aspects
Hippophagy is still unthinkable in many European countries, but in the Mishär Tatar culinary tradition, horsemeat products play an important role. Part of the Mishär Tatars, originally from Nizhny Novgorod province (Russia), migrated to the eastern Baltic Sea region in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. They continued to slaughter horses and eat horseflesh, despite being opposed and stigmatized by the majority in their new surroundings. …
Folk Knowledge in Southern Siberia in the 1770s: Johan Peter Falck’s Ethnobiological Observations
The southern Siberian Turkic groups were mostly unknown to outsiders when the Swedish scientist Johan Peter Falck (1732–1774) visited their settlements in the early 1770s. Falck led one of the expeditions dispatched between 1768 and 1774 by the Russian Academy of Sciences to different parts of the Russian Empire. As a botanist, zoologist, ethnographer and linguist, during his journeys he recorded information not only about the environment but al…
The family tree – a challenge for multicultural learning: Some aspects of Swedish, Serbian and Bulgarian kinship terminology
To discover the essential differences in cultural and linguistic patterns of a certain society, we need to look no further than to the most common relations of all – those between family members. When studying, working and living in, or for instance marrying into another culture, we must not only learn, but also acquire and utilise a whole new set of relationships and terms in order to be able to function and communicate. Without this knowledge w…
Window to a world beyond: Göran Schildt’s journey to Bulgaria and Romania in 1963 and some multilingual and multicultural strategies
International traveller and acclaimed Swedish-language author Göran Schildt sailed in the Black Sea in the summer of 1963. He was a well-read scholar with a deep interest in the Antiquity and a seasoned traveller with a vast experience of multilingual and multicultural situations. This was the first and last visit of his yacht Daphne to the Black Sea and the Eastern Bloc. Through the eyes of this keen observer, a small aperture can be detected am…
Wild European dewberry, Rubus caesius L. (fam. Rosaceae), in Sweden: From traditional regional consumption to exotic dessert at the Nobel Prize banquet
European dewberry, Rubus caesius L . (fam. Rosaceae), played an insignificant role as local food in Sweden before the twentieth century. It is known as salmbär ‘Solomon berries’ in the severely endangered regional language Gutnish, spoken in the Baltic Sea islands Gotland and Fårö. From a largely ignored food product with limited regional use, European dewberry has made a quick culinary journey to the top. Today dewberry jam is popular throughout…
Christian Mauder: In the Sultan’s Salon. Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516)
Review of Christian Mauder: In the Sultan’s Salon. Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516). (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and texts volume 169/1). Leiden: Brill 2021. 2 volumes. ISSN 0929-2403; ISBN 978-90-04-43576-6 (hardback, set); ISBN 978-90-04-47100-9 (hardback, vol. 1); ISBN 978-90-04-47101-6 (hardback, vol. 2); ISBN 978-90-04-44421-8 (e-book)
Historical and Contemporary Uses of Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides L., in the Nordic Countries
Human interest in certain plants can vary considerably over time. At the end of the twentieth century, the orange-yellow fruits of sea buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides Linnaeus, became a trendy addition to the diet in some Nordic countries, especially in Sweden and Finland. The soft and juicy fruits are very rich in vitamin B12, C and E, and this fact has greatly contributed to its popularity among contemporary healthconscious consumers. As a cult…
Traditional sports and games among the Sámi people in Northern Fennoscandia (Sápmi): An Ethnobiological Perspective
Introduction Modern sports equipment is nowadays manufactured industrially according to globally accepted and standardized models, but traditionally tools for play and games were prepared from materials found in the local environment. The objective of this article is to investigate various aspects of Sámi local knowledge about organisms used for their material culture of traditional sports and games in northern Fennoscandia (Sápmi). What function…
Plasmodial slime moulds (myxomycetes) in Swedish and Nordic folk biology
Background Folk biology commonly contains knowledge of many more taxa than those of immediate economic importance. Species with little or no practical use are, however, often overlooked by ethnobiological research. An example are a few Myxomycetes taxa which played an important role in the folk biology and beliefs of pre-industrial Sweden and adjacent Nordic countries, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Such organisms are not of less interest for the u…
Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900
Background Most fisher-gatherer communities we know of utilized a limited number of natural resources for their livelihood. The Turkic-speaking Loptuq (exonym Loplik, Loplyk) in the Lower Tarim River basin, Taklamakan desert, Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang), were no exception. Their habitat, the Lop Nor marsh and lake area, was surrounded by desert and very poor in plant species; the Loptuq had to make the most of a handful of available biological r…
Tatar Teaching and Learning Resources in Finland
Tatar-language education has been organised by the Tatar communities in Finland for more than a century. This traditional minority, today comprising less than a thousand members, was already literate and valued education on arriving in Finland in the second half of the nineteenth century. With very little official support, they have continued to transmit their language, culture, and religion through original and adapted teaching and learning reso…
Gold from nature’s pantry: A diachronic study of Rubus chamaemorus L. (Rosaceae) in swedish gastronomy and economy
This historical overview reveals that local berry picking is decreasing in recent decades. Fluctuations in local weather and lack of foragers influence the availability of cloudberry on the market. In 2025, there were neither enough workers nor berries, and the prices of cloudberry products have risen steeply. The cloudberry, which has enjoyed several decades of popularity both in haute cuisine and among ordinary consumers, will perhaps return to…
How funnel chanterelle (Craterellus tubaeformis) became an urban forager favorite in Scandinavia
Background Peasants in preindustrial Norway and Sweden refused to touch edible macrofungi even during times of scarcity or famines, although this free food resource was abundantly available and authorities encouraged gathering mushrooms to enrich the diet since the eighteenth century. Urbanization and gradual changes of attitudes have turned mushroom gathering in forests and meadows into an important leisure activity. In recent decades, city fora…
How Many Pärämäts Can You Eat
How many pärämäts can you eat?" When Tatars meet, this question is asked not only to compare stomach capacity: by triggering pleasant food memories with a high degree of commensality, they confirm a common identity and cultural bonds that Tatars and especially Mishär Tatars share internationally. Pärämäts, pärämäç, peremets, peremech, or even bälesh - this favourite food carries many names and variations. The round, fried or oven-baked pastries c…
Caspian Tigers and Loptuq Activity Contexts in Eastern Turkestan
Until a hundred years ago, Caspian tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) shared habitat with the Loptuq people who lived along the Tarim River, and lake Lop Nur in Eastern Turkestan. Although their paths crossed, humans and tigers avoided each other and did not compete for resources; only occasionally did a tiger kill cattle and horses or humans kill a tiger. The tigers fed mainly on wild boar (Sus scrofa nigripes) while the Loptuq, for religious reaso…
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