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Folk taxonomy of wild mushrooms in communities of the indigenous groups Chatino, Chontal, and Chinantec in Oaxaca, Mexico [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground Traditional names of wild mushrooms have long served as crucial links between these organisms and humans. In Mexico, cultural groups traditionally use indigenous and Spanish names and have developed effective methods for classifying and naming
Alexanders López-García +2 more
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Folk Taxonomy of Poaceae in Mongolia
Nomadic Civilization: Historical ResearchThis article is the English translation of Japanese original text “Mongol ni okeru Ineka no Minzoku bunrui” written by Yuki Konagaya and others published in 2024 in “Japan and Mongolia” (58: 139-157).
Yu. Konagaya, K. Suzuki, A. Hotta
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Agronomy, 2022 Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) has been cultivated for over one thousand years in the Liangshan Prefecture of Sichuan, China. Growing population pressures, economic modernization pressures, and the erosion of traditional culture have led to the ...
Yingjie Song +7 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The Amazon Basin is home to a great number of Indigenous nationalities that have coevolved with aquatic habitats and fish resulting in a precise traditional ecological knowledge. Nevertheless, this biocultural heritage is threatened by the degradation of
Ibon Tobes +4 more
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Covert Categories and Folk Taxonomies [PDF]
American Anthropologist, 1968 Much of the recent work in ethnoscience has been concerned with the nature of folk taxonomies, an often stated definition of which requires that all folk taxa be monolexemically labeled. This paper offers evidence that unlabeled categories may also be of crucial taxonomic significance, and we feel that it is inappropriate to treat such categories apart
BRENT BERLIN DENNIS E. BREEDLOVE +1 more
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2021 When the internet appeared, both scientists and non-scientists discussed whether it was liberating the media and whether it was going to be transformed into a safe zone for the expression of free opinion. The answer to this question might be found within
Đorđe Stojanović
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Folk Psychology and the Bayesian Brain [PDF]
, 2017 Whilst much has been said about the implications of predictive processing for our scientific understanding of cognition, there has been comparatively little discussion of how this new paradigm fits with our everyday understanding of the mind, i.e.
Dewhurst, Joe
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Instrumentational complexity of music genres and why simplicity sells [PDF]
, 2014 Listening habits are strongly influenced by two opposing aspects, the desire for variety and the demand for uniformity in music. In this work we quantify these two notions in terms of musical instrumentation and production technologies that are typically
Klimek, Peter +2 more
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When Is a Fish Not a Fish? Questions Raised by a Nage Life-Form Category
Ethnobiology Letters, 2012 Speakers of a Central-Malayo-Polynesian language, the Nage inhabit the central region of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores. Their folk taxonomy of animals (ana wa) contains three named life-form taxa, one of which is ika, fish.
Gregory Forth
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Folk biology and external definitions [PDF]
, 1998 Atran’s thesis has strong implications for the doctrine of externalism in concepts (Fodor 1994). Beliefs about biological kinds may involve a degree of deference to scientific categories, but these categories are not truly scientific.
Hampton, J. A.
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