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Tatars in Studia Orientalia Electronica
Studia Orientalia Electronica Special Issue: Tatars in Finland in the Transnational Context of the Baltic Sea Region is now published.
Dr. Sabira Ståhlberg is guest editor for this issue.
Glimpses of Loptuq folk botany
Phytonyms (plant names) and other ethnobiological aspects of vegetation in the Loptuq (Loplik) habitat are discussed in a new article by Ingvar Svanberg, Patrick Hällzon and Sabira Ståhlberg.
Wolf lichen in folk biology
In an article in Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv 2017, researchers Ingvar Svanberg and Sabira Ståhlberg discuss how wolf lichen was used in traditional folk biology for killing wolves in Scandinavia.
Wildmen in Central Asia
Sabira Ståhlberg and Ingvar Svanberg discuss wildmen and other human-like creatures in Central Asia, from Mongolia to the Caucasus, in a new cryptozoological article.
Tatars in the Baltic Sea region
In the journal Baltic Rim Economies (2/2017), published on 24 May 2017 by the Pan-European Institute, University of Turku, Finland, Ingvar Svanberg and Sabira Ståhlberg write about Tatars in the Baltic Sea region.