Ethnobiological Classification : : Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies / / Brent Berlin.
A founder of and leading thinker in the field of modern ethnobiology looks at the widespread regularities in the classification and naming of plants and animals among peoples of traditional, nonliterate societies--regularities that persist across local environments, cultures, societies, and language...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART ONE: Plan
- CHAPTER ONE. On the Making of a Comparative Ethnobiology
- CHAPTER TWO. The Primacy of Generic Taxa in Ethnobiological Classification
- CHAPTER THREE. The Nature of Specific Taxa
- CHAPTER FOUR. Natural and Not So Natural Higher-Order Categories
- PART Two: Process
- CHAPTER FIVE. Patterned Variation in Ethnobiological Knowledge
- CHAPTER SIX. Manchúng and Bíkua: The Nonarbitrariness of Ethnobiological Nomenclature
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Substance and Evolution of Ethnobiological Categories
- References
- Author Index
- Index of Scientific Names
- Index of Ethnoscientific Names
- Subject Index