Nature Knowledge: Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility Book

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Nature Knowledge: Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility, Numerous scholars, in particular anthropologists, historians, economists, linguists, and biologists, have, over the last few years, studied forms of knowledge and use of nature, and of the ways nature can be protected and conserved. Some of the most promi, Nature Knowledge: Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility

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Nature Knowledge: Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility
Written by author Glauco Sanga
Published by Berghahn Books, Incorporated, May 2003
Numerous scholars, in particular anthropologists, historians, economists, linguists, and biologists, have, over the last few years, studied forms of knowledge and use of nature, and of the ways nature can be protected and conserved. Some of the most promi
An international conference was held in Venice, Italy, in December 1997 to compare folk, traditional, and local forms of knowing, using, protecting, and conserving nature. These 26 essays and discussions were either prepared for the conference or emerged

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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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Excellent. Williams uses radical skepticism like a scalpel to show the problems with foundationalism and coherentism, and then to argue for his own contextualist position. I'd always thought this was a textbook, but while it is certainly broad in scope, I'd describe more as an extensive argument from epistemology in general for his own position.

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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