The native mind and the cultural construction of nature /
Surveys show that our growing concern over protecting the environment is accompanied by a diminishing sense of human contact with nature. Many people have little commonsense knowledge about nature - are unable, for example, to identify local plants and trees or describe how these plants and animals...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2008.
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Collection: | Life and mind.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Universals and devolution : general claims
- 3. Study populations, methods, and models
- 4. Devolution and relative expertise
- 5. Development of folkbiological cognition
- 6. Culture as a notional, not natural, kind
- 7. Folkecology and the spirit of the commons : garden experiments in mesoamerica
- 8. Cultural epidemiology
- 9. Mental models and intergroup conflict in North America
- 10. Conclusions and projections.