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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berlin, Brent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Folk classification.
Ethnozoology.
Ethnobotany.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Ethnobotanique.
Ethnozoologie.
Classification primitive > Études transculturelles.
Ethnobotany
Folk classification > Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 languages. Brent Berlin maintains that these patterns can best be explained by the similarity of human beings' largely unconscious appreciation of the natural affinities among groupings of plants and animals: people recognize and name a grouping of organisms quite independently of its actual or potential.
Notas:Cover.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (364 pages).
ISBN:9781400862597

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