Ethnobiological Classification : Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies.
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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| Μορφή: | Licensed eBooks |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2014.
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| Σειρά: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztq5q |
| Περίληψη: | 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. |
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| Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου: | Cover. |
| Φυσική περιγραφή: | 1 online resource (354 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400862597 1400862590 |