Ethnobiological Classification : Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies.

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berlin, Brent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
Temas:
Folk classification > Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnozoology.
Ethnobotany.
Ethnobotany
Classification anthropologique > Études transculturelles.
Ethnozoologie.
Ethnobotanique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Ethnozoology
Folk classification
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

Ejemplares similares