Magico-Religious Motivations in European Dialects: A Contribution to Archaeolinguistics

Alinei, Mario

doi:10.1515/dig.1997.1997.5.3

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“…Over time and with increasing sociocultural complexity, a layer of pre-Christian, anthropomorphic naming followed, typically associated with local gods and mythological figures. These names, in turn, were followed by names taken from Christianity or Islam (Alinei 1997(Alinei , 2005Viereck 2002). The pattern is repeated in other parts of the world (Alinei 1997, p. 18).…”

Section: Non-humans As Kinmentioning

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Kinship appeals and conservation social marketing

Qirko

2017

Biodivers Conserv

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Increasing environmental problems and the need to obtain public support to help address them make effective appeals in conservation fundraising campaigns indispensable. However, social marketing messages based on data, characteristics of focal species, selfinterest, and moral responsibility tend to work best on targeted, and so limited, audiences. As conservation organizations reach out to broader audiences, they will require strategies that appeal to more potential donors. This paper argues that use of kinship symbolism to describe non-human species should make conservation marketing campaigns more effective. Evolutionary theories of altruism predict the power of kinship-recognition cues in encouraging and reinforcing sacrifice in non-kin, unreciprocated contexts, and these cues can be manipulated in marketing campaigns to protect threatened species and resources. People often behave altruistically toward ''fictive'' kin, and the labeling of non-humans as kin in many traditional, small-scale societies appears to be associated with environmental resource management. Characterizing non-human species, and even non-living resources, as kin to humans in marketing campaigns may promote a willingness to contribute to conservation-related causes.

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Section: Non-humans As Kinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Kinship appeals and conservation social marketing

Qirko

2017

Biodivers Conserv

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“…At that time, names for Berberomeloe must have spread quickly all over the range of the species. Since then, the process of becoming sacred, totemic, and tabu along the succesive cultural stages in European societies is easly conceivable (Alinei, 1997;Viereck 2000). The replacement of erliest names would have led to another set of names and traditions, with such strenght, that subsequent sucessive establishment of Muslim and Christian societies were unable to erase or even to transform, as happened with many of the names applied to other insects as Coccinella septempunctata, which became in large part Christianized (see Zabala et al, 2003).…”

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Pharmacological properties of blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae) promoted their integration into the cultural heritage of native rural Spain as inferred by vernacular names diversity, traditions, and mitochondrial DNA

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Buckley

Garcı́a-Parı́s

2013

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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Current knowledge of blister beetles of the family Meloidae in rural Spain was likely developed as a consequence of their pharmacological properties; we hypothesize this knowledge was inherited from ancient pre-Christian Iberian native cultures as part of their traditional therapeutic traditions. It is possible then, that current vernacular names and traditional songs are the only remnants of an ancient knowledge of pharmacological uses of meloid beetles, verbally transmitted from the ancestral cultures to modern day rural Spain. Our work suggests that this legacy, part of the European Cultural Heritage, is disappearing fast, in parallel to the loss of traditional agricultural techniques.

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“…In questa classificazione si è rivelato altresì imprescindibile tener conto dell'importante contributo fornito da Mario Alinei, secondo cui queste categorie iconimiche sarebbero poi analizzabili secondo una stratigrafia archeolinguistica (Alinei, 1997): le designazioni più antiche sarebbero quelle preistoriche di tipo zoomorfico e, in un secondo momento, di tipo antropomorfico, seguite da quelle storiche precristiane e, infine, da quelle cristiane. Le designazioni cristiane, che contano il maggior numero di item a livello zoomorfico in ambito dialettale europeo hanno surclassato un ancor più ampio numero di lemmi precristiani.…”

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La motivation lexicale des noms d’insectes dans les langues allemandes et scandinaves

Bartoleschi¹

2020

geolinguistique

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Magico-Religious Motivations in European Dialects: A Contribution to Archaeolinguistics

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Kinship appeals and conservation social marketing

Kinship appeals and conservation social marketing

Pharmacological properties of blister beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae) promoted their integration into the cultural heritage of native rural Spain as inferred by vernacular names diversity, traditions, and mitochondrial DNA

La motivation lexicale des noms d’insectes dans les langues allemandes et scandinaves

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