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Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | Classification | |
Recognition and classification of natural kinds | 23 | |
1 | How a folk botanical system can be both natural and comprehensive : one Maya Indian's view of the plant world | 38 |
2 | Arbitrariness and necessity in ethnobiological classification : notes on some persisting issues | 47 |
3 | Tackling Aristotelian ethnozoology | 57 |
4 | Current and historical problems in classification : levels and associated themes, from the linguistic point of view | 68 |
Discussion | 95 | |
Pt. II | Naming | |
The ways of naming nature and through nature | 105 | |
5 | The role of motivation ("iconymy)" in naming : six responses to a list of questions | 108 |
6 | Tapir and squirrel : further nomenclatural meanderings toward a universal sound-symbolic bestiary | 119 |
7 | Jivaro streams : from named places to placed names | 128 |
8 | What is lost when names are forgotten? | 161 |
9 | Examples of metaphors from fauna and flora | 185 |
10 | Lexicalization of natural objects in Palawan | 191 |
11 | Levels and mechanisms of naming | 201 |
Discussion | 221 | |
Pt. III | Thought | |
The symbolic uses of nature | 229 | |
12 | Thought of nature and cosmology | 231 |
13 | Symbolic anthropology and ethnoscience : two paradigms | 239 |
14 | Doing, thinking, saying | 243 |
15 | Thought, knowledge, and universals | 249 |
16 | Bodily humors in the scholarly tradition of Hindu and Galenic medicine as an example of naive theory and implicate universals | 262 |
Discussion | 272 | |
Pt. IV | Use | |
How have we come to use nature, from a practical point-of-view? | 283 | |
17 | Indigenous knowledge : subordination and localism | 287 |
18 | Indigenous environmental knowledge, the history of science, and the discourse of development | 297 |
19 | Two reflections on ecological knowledge | 301 |
20 | Indigenous knowledge and cognitive power | 312 |
21 | The role of indigenous knowledge systems in facilitating sustainable approaches to development | 317 |
Discussion | 331 | |
Pt. V | Conservation | |
What does it mean to conserve nature? | 339 | |
22 | Random conservation and deliberate diffusion of botanical species : some evidence out of the modern European agricultural past | 354 |
23 | Diversity, protection, and conservation : local agricultural products and foodstuffs | 366 |
24 | Cultural research on the origin and maintenance of agricultural diversity | 379 |
25 | Activation practices, history of environmental resources, and conservation | 386 |
26 | Forms of knowledge in the conservation of natural resources : from the Middle Ages to the Venetian "tribe" | 391 |
Discussion | 399 |
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