Description |
1 online resource (ix, 504 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Bradford book
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Ethnobiology.
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Folklore.
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Cognition and culture.
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Culture.
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Folklore
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Culture
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culture note.
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folklore (culture-related concept)
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culture (concept)
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Cognition and culture
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Ethnobiology
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Folklore
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Ethnozoologie
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Ethnobotanik
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Umwelt
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Taxonomie
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Lokales Wissen
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Etnobiologie.
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Classificatie.
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Cognitie.
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Genre/Form |
Folklore
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Folk literature
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Folklore.
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Folk literature.
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Littérature populaire.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Medin, Douglas L.
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Atran, Scott, 1952-
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LC no. |
98050861 |
ISBN |
9780262279611 |
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0262279614 |
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0585335990 |
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9780585335995 |
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