It has commonly been argued that certain types of mental descriptions, specifically those characterized in terms of propositional attitudes, are part of a folk psychological understanding of the mind. Recently, however, it has also been argued that this is the case even when such descriptions are employed as part of scientific theories in domains like social psychology and comparative psycholog...

Traditional buildings are a comprehensive manifestation of history, art, and architectural features, also carrier folk culture, traditional skills, regional aesthetic tastes. This paper studies arts from three regions Jiangxi, including northern southern central Jiangxi. in Jiangxi Province flourished the Ming Qing Dynasties. As is located interior China adjacent to many provinces, art greatly ...

The discourses of Antillanité and Créolité are both based on the absence of women. This is more important in the discourse of Créolité since it silences the grandmothers, great aunts and village midwives who are the transmitters of folk tales, folk medicines and oral culture. In the struggle for recognition between Caribbean males and western males folk medicine may be too closely associated wi...

BACKGROUND There is scarce information about European folk knowledge of wild invertebrate fauna. We have documented such folk knowledge in three regions, in Romania, Slovakia and Croatia. We provide a list of folk taxa, and discuss folk biological classification and nomenclature, salient features, uses, related proverbs and sayings, and conservation. METHODS We collected data among Hungarian-...