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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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2014.
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| سلاسل: | Princeton legacy library.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztq5q |
| الملخص: | 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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| وصف المادة: | Cover. |
| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (354 pages) |
| ردمك: | 9781400862597 1400862590 |