Konrad Rybka
University of California, Berkeley
6 Papers
3 Citations
Konrad Rybka is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Indigenous & Biology. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications.
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Papers
Deriving calibrations for Arawakan using archaeological evidence
Lev Michael,Fernando O. de Carvalho,Thiago Costa Chacon,Konrad Rybka,Andres M. Sabogal,Natalia. Chousou-Polydouri,Gereon A. Kaiping +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identify time calibration points for accurately rooting and dating the phylogeny of Arawakan, the largest Indigenous linguistic family of the Americas, based on principles of geographical overlap between archaeological sites and ArawAKAN peoples, and on continuity in material culture between archaeological finds and modern Arawakaan practices.
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Linguistic, Cultural, and Environmental Aspects of Ethnoprimatological Knowledge Among the Lokono, Kari’na, and Warao of the Moruca River (Guyana)
Konrad Rybka
- 22 Mar 2020
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the Moruca River in northwestern Guyana, inhabited by three linguistically unrelated peoples (the Lokono, Kari'na, and Warao), and found that the three languages retain, borrow, and drop terms for primates, or even change their meanings, fine-tuning their lexical resources to the environmental niches, in which they have been spoken.
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Ethnobotanical research under the COVID-19 pandemic: assessing a remote method for documenting Indigenous plant-related knowledge
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors describe and assess a remote method for documenting plant-related knowledge, using smartphones that requires no in-person interaction between an on-site Indigenous community and off-site researchers.
Reconstructing Lokono Contributions to Science
TL;DR: The life work of Johannes Karwafodi, a Lokono man from the early-twentieth-century colony of Suriname who worked with Surinamese, Dutch, and international scholars, most notably, the Penard brothers (anthropology, zoology), De Goeje (linguistics, anthropology), Stahel (ethnobotany), and Abbenhuis ( anthropology) is described in this article .
Forests : the cross-linguistic perspective
Niclas Burenhult,Niclas Burenhult,Clair Hill,Clair Hill,Clair Hill,Juliette Huber,Saskia Van Putten,Konrad Rybka,Lila San Roque,Lila San Roque +9 more
- 14 Dec 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe, compare, and evaluate some of the semantic diversity observed in relation to forests, and show that basic linguistic categories relating to tree cover vary considerably in their principles of semantic encoding across languages, and that forest is a challenging category from the point of view of intercultural translatability.