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Title Folkbiology / edited by Douglas L. Medin and Scott Atran
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 504 pages) : illustrations
Series Bradford book
Contents Introduction / Douglas L. Medin, Scott Atran -- Ethno-ornithology of the Ketengban People, Indonesian New Guinea / Jared Diamond, 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 D. Coley, Douglas L. Medin, Julia Beth Proffitt, Elizabeth Lynch, Scott Atran -- The 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, Daniel T. Levin, Bethany A. Richman, Grant Gutheil -- A Developmental Perspective on Informal Biology / Giyoo Hatano, Kayoko Inagaki -- Mechanical Causality in Children's "Folkbiology" / Terry Kit-fong Au, Laura F. Romo -- How Biological Is Essentialism? / Susan A. Gelman, Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- Natural Kinds and Supraorganismal Individuals / Michael T. Ghiselin -- Are Whales Fish? / John Dupre -- Interdisciplinary Dissonance / David L. Hull
Notes "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethnobiology.
Folklore.
Cognition and culture.
Culture.
Folklore
Culture
culture note.
folklore (culture-related concept)
culture (concept)
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Cognition and culture
Ethnobiology
Folklore
Ethnozoologie
Ethnobotanik
Umwelt
Taxonomie
Lokales Wissen
Etnobiologie.
Classificatie.
Cognitie.
Genre/Form Folklore
Folk literature
Folklore.
Folk literature.
Littérature populaire.
Form Electronic book
Author Medin, Douglas L.
Atran, Scott, 1952-
LC no. 98050861
ISBN 9780262279611
0262279614
0585335990
9780585335995