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Ethnobiological Classification
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ISBN: 9780691094694 0691094691 1306985803 1400862590 0691601267 9781400862597 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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A founder of and leading thinker in the field of modern ethnobiology looks at the widespread regularities in the classification and naming of plants and animals among peoples of traditional, nonliterate societies--regularities that persist across local environments, cultures, societies, and languages. Brent Berlin maintains that these patterns can best be explained by the similarity of human beings' largely unconscious appreciation of the natural affinities among groupings of plants and animals: people recognize and name a grouping of organisms quite independently of its actual or potential usefulness or symbolic significance in human society. Berlin's claims challenge those anthropologists who see reality as a "set of culturally constructed, often unique and idiosyncratic images, little constrained by the parameters of an outside world." Part One of this wide-ranging work focuses primarily on the structure of ethnobiological classification inferred from an analysis of descriptions of individual systems. Part Two focuses on the underlying processes involved in the functioning and evolution of ethnobiological systems in general.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Annals of the Náprstek Museum.
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ISSN: 05549256 Year: 1962 Publisher: Praha : Náprstek Museum,

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1963 (2) : Náprstek Museum in 1962 / Erich Herold -- Bemerkungen zu späten Handzeichnungen eines Oglala-Indianers der Pine Ridge-Rservation -- Gandhâra-Skulpturen im Náprstek Museum, Prag / Herbert Plaeschke -- Zum problem der Raubzüge (gazû) bei den Sammar Gerba / Lothar Stein -- Batak social and political organization. Part II / Milan Stuchlik -- Coins of the Osmanli Sultans in the Coin-Hoards Found on Czechoslovak Territory / Jarmila Stepkova -- Benin-Köningslisten / Siegfried Wolf -- 1975 (8) : Typologie burmanischer Gebrauchsgegenstände aus Lack in den Sammlungen des Náprstek Museums / Vera Halaszova - The Gipsy Music of Iraq / Vaclav Kubica -- Rock Paintings of the Gumardir River, Arnhem Land, Australia / Stanislav Novotny -- Casa aymara en Enquelga / Vaclav Solc -- A contribution to the Minting Techniques of the Umayyad Coinage / Jarmila Stepkova

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