Ethnobiological classification : principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies / Brent Berlin.
- Berlin, Brent.
- Date:
- [1992], ©1992
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992], ©1992.
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xvii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Includes bibliographic references (p. [291]-308) and indexes
Contents
Partial contents: One the making of a comparative ethnobiology -- the primacy of generic taxa in ethnobiological classification -- The nature of specific taxa -- Natural and not so natural higher-order categories -- Patterned variation in ethnobiological knowledge -- Manchung and Bikua: the nonarbitrariness of ethnobiological nomenclature -- The substance and evolution of ethnobiological categories.
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Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: CMB
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- 0691094691 :