Frederick Hasselquist in the Ottoman Empire
Turcologica Upsaliensia. An Illustrated Collection of Essays tells the stories of travellers, researchers and others connected to Uppsala University in Sweden, to the Turkic world.
Tag: Ethnobiology
New book on aviculture
Aviculture: a history is a comprehensive overview of the history of bird keeping across the world. In Chapter 6, researchers Sabira Ståhlberg and Ingvar Svanberg discuss domestic pest control with the help of birds.
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.
The heart of the cook
The heart beats faster, when the cook is in the kitchen. With pans and pots aromas and tastes are created…
Three Easy Reads about ecology
Three new Easy Read books tell about pollution in the earth, air and water.
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.