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Zusatztext "...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 Informationen zum Autor Gherardo Ortalli is the Academic Director of the Istituto Veneto. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction Glauco Sanga PART I: CLASSIFICATION Recognition and Classification of Natural Kinds Marta Maddalon Chapter 1. How a Folk Botanical System can be both Natural and Comprehensive: One Maya Indian’s View of the Plant World Brent Berlin Chapter 2. Arbitrariness and Necessity in Ethnobiological Classification: Notes on some Persisting Issues Roy Ellen Chapter 3. Tackling Aristotelian Ethnozoology Oddone Longo Chapter 4. Current and Historical Problems in Classification: Levels and Associated Themes, from the Linguistic Point of View John B. Trumper Discussion Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro PART II: NAMING The Ways of Naming Nature and Through Nature Glauco Sanga Chapter 5. The Role of Motivation (“iconymy”) in Naming: Six Responses to a List of Questions Mario Alinei Chapter 6. Tapir and Squirrel: Further Nomenclatural Meanderings Toward a Universal Sound-symbolic Bestiary Brent Berlin Chapter 7. Jivaro Streams: from Named Places to Placed Names Maurizio Gnerre Chapter 8. What is Lost When Names are Forgotten? Jane H. Hill Chapter 9. Examples of Metaphors from Fauna and Flora Giovan Battista Pellegrini Chapter 10. Lexicalization of Natural Objects in Palawan Nicole Revel Chapter 11. Levels and Mechanisms of Naming John B. Trumper Discussion Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro PART III: THOUGHT The Symbolic Uses of Nature Daniel Fabre Chapter 12. Thought of Nature and Cosmology Jean-Pierre Albert Chapter 13. Symbolic Anthropology and Ethnoscience: Two Paradigms Marlène Albert-Llorca Chapter 14. Doing, Thinking, Saying Giulio Angioni Chapter 15. Thought, Knowledge, and Universals Jack Goody Chapter 16. Bodily Humors in the Scho...
