id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ebl-1701	Svanberg, Ingvar; Ståhlberg, Sabira	Fisher-foragers Amidst the Reeds: Loptuq Perception of Waterscapes in the Lower Tarim Area	2020	9	.pdf	application/pdf	6120	418	66	During his first expedition in 1896, Hedin explored the Lower Tarim River region, lived in Loptuq reed huts, and “spoke their own language, eating the food they ate, and was almost as poor as themselves” (Hedin 1898b:898). We examine Loptuq perceptions of their waterscape environment through naming and use of reed, highlighting through this example the importance of linguistic materials in ethnobiology for understanding local knowledge in a historical context.	cache/ebl-1701.pdf	txt/ebl-1701.txt