Nature knowledge : ethnoscience, cognition, and utility

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Nature knowledge : ethnoscience, cognition, and utility / edited by Glauco Sanga and Gherardo Ortalli.

Sanga, Glauco. (Added Author). Ortalli, Gherardo. (Added Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 1571818227
ISBN: 1571818235
ISBN: 9781571818225
ISBN: 9781571818232
Physical Description: xii, 417 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books ; ©2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Recognition and classification of natural kinds / Marta Maddalon -- How a folk botanical system can be both natural and comprehensive : one Maya Indian's view of the plant world / Brent Berlin -- Arbitrariness and necessity in ethnobiological classification : notes on some persisting issues / Roy Ellen -- Tackling Aristotelian ethnozoology / Oddone Longo -- Current and historical problems in classification : levels and associated themes, from the linguistic point of view / John B. Trumper -- The ways of naming nature and through nature / Glauco Sanga -- The role of motivation ("iconymy") in naming : six responses to a list of questions / Mario Alinei -- Tapir and squirrel : further nomenclature meanderings toward a universal sound-symbolic bestiary / Brent Berlin -- Jivaro streams : from named places to placed names / Maurizio Gnerre -- What is lost when names are forgotten? / Jane H. Hill -- Examples of metaphors from fauna and flora / Giovan Battista Pellegrini -- Lexicalization of natural objects in Palawan / Nicole Revel -- Levels and mechanisms of naming / John B. Trumper -- The symbolic uses of nature / Daniel Fabre -- Thought of nature and cosmology / Jean-Pierre Albert -- Symbolic anthropology and ethnoscience : two paradigms / Marlène Albert-Llorca -- Doing, thinking, saying / Giulio Angioni -- Thought, knowledge, and universals / Jack Goody -- Bodily humors in the scholarly tradition of Hindu and Galenic medicine as an example of naive theory and implicate universals / Francis Zimmermann -- How have we come to use nature, from a practical point of view? / Antonino Colajanni -- Indigenous knowledge : subordination and localism / Giulio Angioni -- Indigenous environmental knowledge, the history of science, and the discourse of development / Roy Ellen and Holly Harris -- Two reflections on ecological knowledge / Tim Ingold -- Indigenous knowledge and cognitive power / Pier Giorgio Solinas -- The role of indigenous knowledge systems in facilitating sustainable approaches to development / D. Michael Warren -- What does it mean to conserve nature? / Cristina Papa -- Random conservation and deliberate diffusion of botanical species : some evidence out of the modern European agricultural past / Mauro Ambrosoli -- Diversity, protection, and conservation : local agricultural products and foodstuffs / Laurence Bérard and Philippe Marchenay -- Cultural research on the origin and maintenance of agricultural diversity / Stephen Brush -- Activation practices, history of environmental resources, and conservation / Diego Moreno -- Forms of knowledge in the conservation of natural resources : from the Middle Ages to the Venetian "tribe" / Gherardo Ortalli.