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- Source :
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute . Mar2006 Supplement 1, Vol. 12, p1-S22. 22p. 1 Diagram. - Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- This introduction to the volume argues for the central and integrating role of the subject matter of ethnobiological research in anthropology understood in its widest sense: in its biological, archaeo-historical, and socio-cultural dimensions. The background and current status of ethnobiology are assessed, and its contribution to anthropological issues considered under the following headings: the foundational paradigm of taxonomic orthodoxy; language and the translation of knowledge systems; cognition and culture; the social organization and transmission of knowledge; medical ethnobiology; the applied practice of ethnobiology; and – the meta-theory which binds all this together – the co-evolutionary paradigm as part of a wider ‘biocultural synthesis’. The way in which the collected papers exemplify these themes is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ETHNOBIOLOGY
*ANTHROPOLOGY
*COGNITION & culture
*LANGUAGE & culture
*CULTURE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13590987
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19714532
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00270.x