Nature knowledge : ethnoscience, cognition, and utility /
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| Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books ; Venezia : Istituto Veneto di Scienze, lettere ed Arti, 2003. |
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| Description: | xii, 417 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5541620 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Glauco Sanga
- Pt. I. Classification
- Recognition and classification of natural kinds / Marta Maddalon
- 1. How a folk botanical system can be both natural and comprehensive : one Maya Indian's view of the plant world / Brent Berlin
- 2. Arbitrariness and necessity in ethnobiological classification : notes on some persisting issues / Roy Ellen
- 3. Tackling Aristotelian ethnozoology / Oddone Longo
- 4. Current and historical problems in classification : levels and associated themes, from the linguistic point of view / John B. Trumper
- Discussion / Edited by Gabriele Iannaccaro
- Pt. II. Naming
- The ways of naming nature and through nature / Glauco Sanga
- 5. The role of motivation ("iconymy)" in naming : six responses to a list of questions / Mario Alinei
- 6. Tapir and squirrel : further nomenclatural meanderings toward a universal sound-symbolic bestiary / Brent Berlin
- 7. Jivaro streams : from named places to placed names / Maurizio Gnerre
- 8. What is lost when names are forgotten? / Jane H. Hill
- 9. Examples of metaphors from fauna and flora / Giovan Battista Pellegrini
- 10. Lexicalization of natural objects in Palawan / Nicole Revel
- 11. Levels and mechanisms of naming / John B. Trumper
- Discussion / Edited by Gabriele Iannaccaro
- Pt. III. Thought
- The symbolic uses of nature / Daniel Fabre
- 12. Thought of nature and cosmology / Jean-Pierre Albert
- 13. Symbolic anthropology and ethnoscience : two paradigms / Marlene Albert-Llorca
- 14. Doing, thinking, saying / Giulio Angioni
- 15. Thought, knowledge, and universals / Jack Goody
- 16. Bodily humors in the scholarly tradition of Hindu and Galenic medicine as an example of naive theory and implicate universals / Francis Zimmermann
- Discussion / Edited by Gabriele Iannaccaro
- Pt. IV. Use
- How have we come to use nature, from a practical point-of-view? / Antonino Colajanni
- 17. Indigenous knowledge : subordination and localism / Giulio Angioni
- 18. Indigenous environmental knowledge, the history of science, and the discourse of development / Roy Ellen and Holly Harris
- 19. Two reflections on ecological knowledge / Tim Ingold
- 20. Indigenous knowledge and cognitive power / Pier Giorgio Solinas
- 21. The role of indigenous knowledge systems in facilitating sustainable approaches to development / D. Michael Warren
- Discussion / Edited by Gabriele Iannaccaro
- Pt. V. Conservation
- What does it mean to conserve nature? / Cristina Papa
- 22. Random conservation and deliberate diffusion of botanical species : some evidence out of the modern European agricultural past / Mauro Ambrosoli
- 23. Diversity, protection, and conservation : local agricultural products and foodstuffs / Laurence Berard and Philippe Marchenay
- 24. Cultural research on the origin and maintenance of agricultural diversity / Stephen Brush
- 25. Activation practices, history of environmental resources, and conservation / Diego Moreno
- 26. Forms of knowledge in the conservation of natural resources : from the Middle Ages to the Venetian "tribe" / Gherardo Ortalli
- Discussion / Edited by Gabriele Iannaccaro.
