Nature Knowledge

Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility

By: Glauco Sanga (Editor), Gherardo Ortalli (Editor)

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Numerous scholars, in particular anthropologists, historians, economists, linguists, and biologists, have, over the last few years, studied forms of knowledge and use of nature, and of the ways nature can be protected and conserved. Some of the most prominent scholars have come together in this volume to reflect on what has been achieved so far, to compare the work carried out in the past, to discuss the problems that have emerged from different research projects, and to map out the way forward.

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"...the book is well-edited and most contributions are written comprehensively. It will certainly be useful to researchers with an interest in cognitive aspects of ethnopharmacology, but also ethnoscience in general." · JRAI

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Non-Fiction Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Conservation of The Environment Science Biology, Life Sciences Botany & Plant Sciences Philosophy Nature & The Natural World Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture

Engineering & Technology Environmental Science Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Sociology Social Research & Statistics

Introduction	p. 1
Classification
Recognition and classification of natural kinds	p. 23
How a folk botanical system can be both natural and comprehensive : one Maya Indian's view of the plant world	p. 38
Arbitrariness and necessity in ethnobiological classification : notes on some persisting issues	p. 47
Tackling Aristotelian ethnozoology	p. 57
Current and historical problems in classification : levels and associated themes, from the linguistic point of view	p. 68
Discussion	p. 95
Naming
The ways of naming nature and through nature	p. 105
The role of motivation ("iconymy)" in naming : six responses to a list of questions	p. 108
Tapir and squirrel : further nomenclatural meanderings toward a universal sound-symbolic bestiary	p. 119
Jivaro streams : from named places to placed names	p. 128
What is lost when names are forgotten?	p. 161
Examples of metaphors from fauna and flora	p. 185
Lexicalization of natural objects in Palawan	p. 191
Levels and mechanisms of naming	p. 201
Discussion	p. 221
Thought
The symbolic uses of nature	p. 229
Thought of nature and cosmology	p. 231
Symbolic anthropology and ethnoscience : two paradigms	p. 239
Doing, thinking, saying	p. 243
Thought, knowledge, and universals	p. 249
Bodily humors in the scholarly tradition of Hindu and Galenic medicine as an example of naive theory and implicate universals	p. 262
Discussion	p. 272
Use
How have we come to use nature, from a practical point-of-view?	p. 283
Indigenous knowledge : subordination and localism	p. 287
Indigenous environmental knowledge, the history of science, and the discourse of development	p. 297
Two reflections on ecological knowledge	p. 301
Indigenous knowledge and cognitive power	p. 312
The role of indigenous knowledge systems in facilitating sustainable approaches to development	p. 317
Discussion	p. 331
Conservation
What does it mean to conserve nature?	p. 339
Random conservation and deliberate diffusion of botanical species : some evidence out of the modern European agricultural past	p. 354
Diversity, protection, and conservation : local agricultural products and foodstuffs	p. 366
Cultural research on the origin and maintenance of agricultural diversity	p. 379
Activation practices, history of environmental resources, and conservation	p. 386
Forms of knowledge in the conservation of natural resources : from the Middle Ages to the Venetian "tribe"	p. 391
Discussion	p. 399
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