A case study in Ahtna Athabascan geographic knowledge

The multiperspectival nature of place names: Ewenki mobility, river naming, and relationships with animals, spirits, and landscapes

“…Research has long highlighted the important role of place names in the culture and identity of Indigenous people around the globe (Basso 1996; Clark, Hercus & Kostanski 2014; Cogos, Roué & Roturier 2017; Hunn 1996; Kari 2011; Thornton 1997; 2008; 2012; see also Johnson & Hunn 2010; Mark, Turk, Burenhult & Stea 2011). To date, documentation, standardization, and cultural transmission of Indigenous place names have dominated scholarly inquiry.…”

Toponymy, drawing, and representing place: a comment on James Cantrill’s “On Seeing ‘Places’”

“…When we bring the field of toponymy into the domains of place research and environmental communication, we observe that many anthropologists, toponymists, and linguists strive to implicate and involve the "other" in their descriptions. Anthropologists Basso's (1988Basso's ( , 1996 work with the Western Apache and Gaffin's (1996) documentation of Faeroe Islander people's connection to place, historian and artist Carter's (1986) creative interpretation of spatial history and place-naming in colonial Australia, geographer Kari's (2011) study of Ahtna Athabascan geographic knowledge in Alaska, and Myers's (1986, p. 57) "life-world of constituted meanings" of the Pintupi people in Aboriginal Australia all draw on synthesised fieldworker-informant exchanges of benefit to place research and environmental communication.…”

:Spatial Thinking and External Representation: Towards a Historical Epistemology of Space

“…Smith 1981, 282. See Li 1946, Kari 1979, Cook 2004b, K. Rice 1989, McDonough 2000, S. Rice 2002 on the general structure of the Athapaskan verb stem system. Cook 2004a, 92.…”