Traditional Sámi sports and games
The article investigates various aspects of Sámi local knowledge about organisms used for their material culture of sports and games.
Tag: Ingvar Svanberg
Historical and Contemporary Uses of Sea Buckthorn
The article discusses how a rather unknown wild shrub, mostly unnoticed in peasant folk botany along the northern European coasts, has become common as a cultivated plant.
Barbary lion in Uppsala
A new article by Sabira Ståhlberg and Ingvar Svanberg about a Barbary lion kept in Uppsala at the beginning of the 1800s has been published recently.
Traditional and modern uses of dewberry
The article Wild European dewberry, Rubus caesius L. (fam. Rosaceae), in Sweden: from traditional regional consumption to exotic dessert at the Nobel Prize banquet is now online.
Article: Folk knowledge in Southern Siberia
A new article, Folk Knowledge in Southern Siberia in the 1770s: Johan Peter Falck’s Ethnobiological Observations, has been published recently in Studia Orientalia Electronica.