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Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times : Sources, Methods, and Theories from an Interdisciplinary Perspective /

Frühes Wissen um Mensch und Natur weist häufig kulturelle Parallelen auf. Daraus ergibt sich die Unterscheidung zwischen universellen und spezifischen Konzepten. Universell meint dabei weniger etwas, das überall und stets vorhanden ist, als vielmehr etwas, das zeitlich und räumlich bei vergleich...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bisang, Walter, Pommerening, Tanja
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Classification and Categorization through Time
  • Part I: Classification in Ancient Times
  • Categorization and Explanation of the World in Hesiod's Theogony
  • What is a horse? Lexical Acculturation and Classification in Egyptian, Sumerian, and Nahuatl
  • All Creatures Great and Small
  • The Ancient Egyptian View of the Animal World
  • Classification Systems and Pharmacological Theory in Medieval Collections of Materia Medica: A Short History from the Antiquity to the End of the 12th Century
  • Classification in Ancient Egyptian Medical Formulae and its Role in Re-Discovering Comprehensive and Specific Concepts of Drugs and Effects
  • Part II: Classification in Modern Times
  • Classification between Grammar and Culture
  • a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
  • Classification and Naming of Living Objects
  • a Biologist's Perspective (Extended Abstract)
  • Tools, Agency and the Category of Living Things
  • Categorizing Natural Objects: Some Issues Arising from Recent Work in Cognitive Anthropology and Ethnobiological Classification
  • Part III: Tools
  • Frames as a Model for the Analysis and Description of Concepts, Conceptual Structures, Conceptual Change and Concept Hierarchies
  • Tracing Concepts
  • Semantic Network Analysis as a Heuristic Device for Classification
  • Index
  • List of Contributors.