Konrad Rybka
Biographic Data
| ID | 195978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Konrad Rybka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Konrad |
| FAMILY NAME | Rybka |
| SIGNATURE | RYBKA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7535-8694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tracing the History of the Taruma People through Plants, Their Names, and Uses
This article explores what plants, their names and uses can tell us about the history of the speakers of Taruma, a language isolate of Guyana. We identified Taruma plant taxa from photographs taken by Taruma speakers and learners, and compared the names and uses of the plants they recorded to those of other Indigenous people to identify knowledge that Taruma speakers share with other nations. Our outcomes show the potential of combining botany an…
The Netherlands Urban Field Station: Taaldiversiteit inzetten voor gelijkere kansen
we wel genoeg om die talige rijkdom op waarde te schatten
The Netherlands Urban Field Station: How language diversity promotes equality of opportunity
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Ethnobotanical research under the Covid-19 pandemic: Assessing a remote method for documenting Indigenous plant-related knowledge
Background: In response to the limitations on fieldwork imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we describe and assess a remote method for documenting plant-related knowledge, using smartphones that requires no in-person interaction between an on-site Indigenous community and off-site researchers. Methods: The on-site team identified the Indigenous taxa, created equivalents of photo vouchers, and recorded their names and uses as voice messages using a …
Reconstructing Lokono Contributions to Science: The Life Work of Johannes Karwafodi
Since the first colonial encounter, Indigenous people have shared their unique systems of knowledge with colonial actors. Yet, their roles in colonial research and their contributions to Western science remain both obscured by the careers of their collaborators and segmented by the bounds of the disciplines they helped advance. This article is an attempt at reconstructing and recentering the life work of Johannes Karwafodi, a Lokono man from the …
Forests: The cross-linguistic perspective
Do all humans perceive, think, and talk about tree cover (forests) in more or less the same way? International forestry programs frequently seem to operate on the assumption that they do. However, recent advances in the language sciences show that languages vary greatly as to how the landscape domain is lexicalized and grammaticalized. Different languages segment and label the large-scale environment and its features according to astonishingly di…
Vanishing Ecotopes: Experimental Approaches to Lokono Ecotope Terms
In spite of the importance of landscape for linguists, ethnobiologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, and humans in general, landscape terminology is an understudied phenomenon. Both methodologically and theoretically, linguistic systems of landscape classification remain a largely uncharted territory. By applying experimental methods from ethnoecology and psychology, I offer an innovative outlook on the study of ecotope terms, particularly th…
Between Objects and Places: The Expression of Landforms in Lokono (Arawakan)
Topographic features are a special category of entities. Geographers conceptualize them as fields, that is, spatial distributions of an attribute (e.g., elevation) or, alternatively, as objects, that is, entities identified in space (e.g., mountains). But how do people actually conceptualize landforms and does it differ across cultures? This paper examines the linguistic encoding of landforms in Lokono. Lokono landform vocabulary includes the gen…
How are nouns categorized as denoting "what" and "where
How are nouns categorized as denoting "what" and "where
Between Objects and Places: The Expression of Landforms in Lokono (Arawakan)
Topographic features are a special category of entities. Geographers conceptualize them as fields, that is, spatial distributions of an attribute (e.g., elevation) or, alternatively, as objects, that is, entities identified in space (e.g., mountains). But how do people actually conceptualize landforms and does it differ across cultures? This paper examines the linguistic encoding of landforms in Lokono. Lokono landform vocabulary includes the gen…
How are nouns categorized as denoting "what" and "where
Between Objects and Places: The Expression of Landforms in Lokono (Arawakan)
Topographic features are a special category of entities. Geographers conceptualize them as fields, that is, spatial distributions of an attribute (e.g., elevation) or, alternatively, as objects, that is, entities identified in space (e.g., mountains). But how do people actually conceptualize landforms and does it differ across cultures? This paper examines the linguistic encoding of landforms in Lokono. Lokono landform vocabulary includes the gen…
Forests: The cross-linguistic perspective
Do all humans perceive, think, and talk about tree cover (forests) in more or less the same way? International forestry programs frequently seem to operate on the assumption that they do. However, recent advances in the language sciences show that languages vary greatly as to how the landscape domain is lexicalized and grammaticalized. Different languages segment and label the large-scale environment and its features according to astonishingly di…
Vanishing Ecotopes: Experimental Approaches to Lokono Ecotope Terms
In spite of the importance of landscape for linguists, ethnobiologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, and humans in general, landscape terminology is an understudied phenomenon. Both methodologically and theoretically, linguistic systems of landscape classification remain a largely uncharted territory. By applying experimental methods from ethnoecology and psychology, I offer an innovative outlook on the study of ecotope terms, particularly th…
Reconstructing Lokono Contributions to Science: The Life Work of Johannes Karwafodi
Since the first colonial encounter, Indigenous people have shared their unique systems of knowledge with colonial actors. Yet, their roles in colonial research and their contributions to Western science remain both obscured by the careers of their collaborators and segmented by the bounds of the disciplines they helped advance. This article is an attempt at reconstructing and recentering the life work of Johannes Karwafodi, a Lokono man from the …
The Netherlands Urban Field Station: Taaldiversiteit inzetten voor gelijkere kansen
we wel genoeg om die talige rijkdom op waarde te schatten
The Netherlands Urban Field Station: How language diversity promotes equality of opportunity
Preview this article: The Netherlands Urban Field Station, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/avt.00093.van-1.gif
Ethnobotanical research under the Covid-19 pandemic: Assessing a remote method for documenting Indigenous plant-related knowledge
Background: In response to the limitations on fieldwork imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we describe and assess a remote method for documenting plant-related knowledge, using smartphones that requires no in-person interaction between an on-site Indigenous community and off-site researchers. Methods: The on-site team identified the Indigenous taxa, created equivalents of photo vouchers, and recorded their names and uses as voice messages using a …
Tracing the History of the Taruma People through Plants, Their Names, and Uses
This article explores what plants, their names and uses can tell us about the history of the speakers of Taruma, a language isolate of Guyana. We identified Taruma plant taxa from photographs taken by Taruma speakers and learners, and compared the names and uses of the plants they recorded to those of other Indigenous people to identify knowledge that Taruma speakers share with other nations. Our outcomes show the potential of combining botany an…
Geography (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Categorization (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works)