Ethnobiological classification: principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies
Auteur :
Berlin, Brent
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691631004
Date de publication :
19 avr. 2016
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
652 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
A founder of and leading thinker in the field of modern ethnobiology looks at the widespread regularities in the classification and naming of plants and animals among peoples of traditional, nonliterate societies--regularities that persist across local environments, cultures, societies, and languages. Brent Berlin maintains that these patterns can