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Folkbiology
The term "folkbiology" refers to people's everyday understanding of the biological world―how they perceive, categorize, and reason about living kinds. The study of folkbiology not only sheds light on human nature, it may ultimately help us make the transition to a global economy without irreparably damaging the environment or destroying local cultures.This book takes an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the work of researchers in anthropology, cognitive and developmental psychology, biology, and philosophy of science. The issues covered include: Are folk taxonomies a first-order approximation to classical scientific taxonomies, or are they driven more directly by utilitarian concerns? How are these category schemes linked to reasoning about natural kinds? Is there any nontrivial sense in which folk-taxonomic structures are universal? What impact does science have on folk taxonomy? Together, the chapters present the current foundations of folkbiology and indicate new directions in research.
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- ISBN: 0262133490 (hc : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780262133494 (hc : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 026263192X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780262631921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: ix, 504 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.
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- General Note:
- "A Bradford book."
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Ethno-ornithology of the Ketengban people, Indonesian New Guinea / Jared Diamond and K. David Bishop -- Size as limiting the recognition of biodiversity in folkbiological classifications : one of four factors governing the cultural recognition of biological taxa / Eugene Hunn -- How a folkbotanical system can be both natural and comprehensive : one Maya Indian's view of the plant world / Brent Berlin -- Models of subsistence and ethnobiological knowledge : between extraction and cultivation in Southeast Asia / Roy Ellen -- Itzaj Maya folkbiological taxonomy : cognitive universals and cultural particulars / Scott Atran -- Inductive reasoning in folkbiological thought / John C. Coley ... [et al.] -- Dubbing ceremony revisited : object naming and categorization in infancy and early childhood / Sandra R. Waxman -- Mechanism and explanation in the development of biological thought : the case of disease / Frank C. Keil ... [et al.] -- Developmental perspective on informal biology / Giyoo Hatano and Kayoko Inagaki -- Mechanical causality in children's "folkbiology" / Terry Kit-fong Au and Laura F. Romo -- How biological is essentialism? / Susan A. Gelman and Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- Natural kinds and supraorganismal individuals / Michael T. Ghiselin -- Are whales fish? / John Dupré -- Interdisciplinary dissonance / David L. Hull.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | GN 476.7 .F65 1999 | 271819 | Stacks | Available | - |
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