Solifugae (Arachnida): Indigenous Southern African names and their meanings

Utterances and Their Meanings

Meanings are constructed situationally by the participants in interaction, as they construe intent in each other’s uttered words. A well-known story (said to be a favorite of both Vygotsky and Bakhtin) tells of a group of sailors having a nuanced exchange by repeating the same expletive to each other, but with a different intonation and timing at each turn. This polysemousness of words is equal...

The Changing Meanings of Indigenous Tacana

Manipulating identity. Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin of Bolivia, like those in many parts of the world, have been the targets of oppressive politics and practices, including overtly genocidal attempts to wipe them off the face of the earth. Some historical accounts of the Beni and Pando region of Bolivia are gruesome. While many groups of indígenas have shown what could be considered h...

Accessing newly learned names and meanings in the native language.

Ten healthy adults encountered pictures of unfamiliar archaic tools and successfully learned either their name, verbal definition of their usage, or both. Neural representation of the newly acquired information was probed with magnetoencephalography in an overt picture-naming task before and after learning, and in two categorization tasks after learning. Within 400 ms, activation proceeded from...

African indigenous knowledge and research

This paper seeks to heighten awareness about the need to include indigenous knowledge in the design and implementation of research, particularly disability research, in Africa. It affirms the suitability of the Afrocentric paradigm in African research and argues the necessity for an emancipatory and participatory type of research which values and includes indigenous knowledge and peoples. In th...

Common Transitions and Their Meanings