Kervan Pub Date : 2016-12-08 DOI: 10.13135/1825-263X/1874

G. Pellegrini

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Some aspects of plant symbolism in Indian civilization 印度文明中植物象征的一些方面

Kervan Pub Date : 2016-12-08 DOI: 10.13135/1825-263X/1873

A. Pelissero

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Fig leaves, bramble thorns and cedars of Lebanon: silent and talking plants in the Bible and beyond 无花果叶、荆棘和黎巴嫩的雪松:《圣经》和《圣经》之外的沉默和会说话的植物

Kervan Pub Date : 2016-12-08 DOI: 10.13135/1825-263X/1875

A. Mengozzi

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From seed to plant: vegetal images and metaphors in Swahili poetry 从种子到植物:斯瓦希里语诗歌中的植物意象和隐喻

Kervan Pub Date : 2016-12-08 DOI: 10.13135/1825-263X/1882

Graziella Acquaviva

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"The Song of the Plants", from Rabbi Nachman from Breslav to Naomi Sherzer 《植物之歌》，从拉比·纳赫曼从布雷斯拉夫到内奥米·舍尔泽

Kervan Pub Date : 2016-12-08 DOI: 10.13135/1825-263X/1941

S. Kaminski

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“Plants have a will of their own”: the construction of botanical metaphors and symbols in the literary garden of (postcolonial) India “植物有自己的意志”:(后殖民)印度文学花园中植物隐喻和符号的建构

Kervan Pub Date : 2016-12-08 DOI: 10.13135/1825-263X/1876

E. Adami

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“Doman am diran che j’erbo a coro…” (they do!) “明天我告诉他们我需要一个合唱。”

Kervan Pub Date : 2016-12-08 DOI: 10.13135/1825-263X/1940

Graziella Acquaviva, M. Tosco

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Images of the plant kingdom in the Mamluk encyclopedia Masālik al-abṣār by Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-‘Umarī (d. 1349) 伊本Faḍl Allāh《马穆鲁克百科全书》Masālik al-abṣār中植物王国的图像(1349年)

Kervan Pub Date : 2016-12-08 DOI: 10.13135/1825-263X/1881

F. Bellino

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Soqotra: original features of an isolated culture as reflected in the botanical and ethnobotanical peculiarities 特色:一个孤立文化的原始特征，反映在植物学和民族植物学的特点上

Kervan Pub Date : 2016-12-08 DOI: 10.13135/1825-263X/1901

Luigi Guiglia, D. Bouvet

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The figure of the Herbalist-Healer in Uganda.New challenges out of contact with the National Health Organization policies 乌干达的草药治疗师的形象。新的挑战与国家卫生组织的政策脱节

Kervan Pub Date : 2016-12-08 DOI: 10.13135/1825-263X/1879

G. Borri

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