Tattoo custom in women of Yi ethnic group is a human cultural phenomenon with very rich connotation.Its social and psychological motive is complex.It is a comprehensive expression of religion,culture and custom of Yi ...Tattoo custom in women of Yi ethnic group is a human cultural phenomenon with very rich connotation.Its social and psychological motive is complex.It is a comprehensive expression of religion,culture and custom of Yi ethnic group under specific historical and regional conditions.展开更多
Relationships between environmental and social factors have long been studied by geographers.Nowadays,GIS-aided statistical analysis provides new tools to explore these relationships.In order to detect the impact of t...Relationships between environmental and social factors have long been studied by geographers.Nowadays,GIS-aided statistical analysis provides new tools to explore these relationships.In order to detect the impact of topography on social factors,we selected the country of Montenegro as a case example due to its high topographic variability.We compared the spatial pattern of population,settlements and ethnic minorities to physical geographic factors,especially to topography,but lithology and land cover data were also taken into consideration.We found that certain factors are closely correlated,e.g.the settlement density linearly decreases with elevation,while the characteristic settlement area shows an exponential increase upwards.The population density is not related to absolute elevation,but it is in close correlation with height(i.e.elevation relative to the local minimum).Population change and illiteracy are also topography-related social factors.On the contrary,the variable ethnic pattern of Montenegro is influenced by historical,political and economic effects rather than by environmental factors or topographic features.As a conclusion we state that in the scale of a country or a region,the environment can strongly impact some social factors.展开更多
基金special funded project of basic scientific research grant for Southwest Minzu University(2019NQN30)general project of research and reform of school-level education and teaching of Southwest Minzu University 2019(1231119022)output of construction project of‘ethnicity language and character information processing laboratory’of key laboratory of Southwest Minzu University.
文摘Tattoo custom in women of Yi ethnic group is a human cultural phenomenon with very rich connotation.Its social and psychological motive is complex.It is a comprehensive expression of religion,culture and custom of Yi ethnic group under specific historical and regional conditions.
基金supported by the Hungarian National Science Foundation,OTKA 104811 projectsupported by the János Bolyai Scolarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
文摘Relationships between environmental and social factors have long been studied by geographers.Nowadays,GIS-aided statistical analysis provides new tools to explore these relationships.In order to detect the impact of topography on social factors,we selected the country of Montenegro as a case example due to its high topographic variability.We compared the spatial pattern of population,settlements and ethnic minorities to physical geographic factors,especially to topography,but lithology and land cover data were also taken into consideration.We found that certain factors are closely correlated,e.g.the settlement density linearly decreases with elevation,while the characteristic settlement area shows an exponential increase upwards.The population density is not related to absolute elevation,but it is in close correlation with height(i.e.elevation relative to the local minimum).Population change and illiteracy are also topography-related social factors.On the contrary,the variable ethnic pattern of Montenegro is influenced by historical,political and economic effects rather than by environmental factors or topographic features.As a conclusion we state that in the scale of a country or a region,the environment can strongly impact some social factors.
