Ethnobiological Classification by Brent Berlin
A founder of the field of modern ethnobiology examines 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.
"This well-researched and enthusiastically written book is a major contribution to ethnobiology... This book is aimed at professional ethnobiologists, but it will also be of value to those who are interested in linguistics, systematics, psychological mechanisms, and the postmodernist debate." * The Quarterly Review of Biology *
Kay, Paul: - Paul Kay is emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology, transferred to the Department of Linguistics in 1982, and then became a Senior Researcher in artificial intelligence at the International Computer Science Institute. He is best known for his work with Brent Berlin on color, first published in Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691094694 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691094691 |
| Title | Ethnobiological Classification |
| Author | Brent Berlin |
| Series | Princeton Legacy Library |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1992-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 364 |
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