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Folkbiology / edited by Douglas L. Medin and Scott Atran.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextCopyright date: �1999Description: 1 online resource (ix, 504 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262279611
  • 0262279614
  • 0585335990
  • 9780585335995
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Folkbiology.DDC classification:
  • 306.4/5 21
LOC classification:
  • GN476.7 .F65 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 42.05
  • 306.45
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Douglas L. Medin, Scott Atran -- Ethno-ornithology of the Ketengban People, Indonesian New Guinea / Jared Diamond, K. David Bishop -- Size as Limiting the Recognition of Biodiversity in Folkbiological Classifications: One of Four Factors Governing the Cultural Recognition of Biological Taxa / Eugene Hunn -- How a Folkbotanical System Can Be Both Natural and Comprehensive: One Maya Indian's View of the Plant World / Brent Berlin -- Models of Subsistence and Ethnobiological Knowledge: Between Extraction and Cultivation in Southeast Asia / Roy Ellen -- Itzaj Maya Folkbiological Taxonomy: Cognitive Universals and Cultural Particulars / Scott Atran -- Inductive Reasoning in Folkbiological Thought / John D. Coley, Douglas L. Medin, Julia Beth Proffitt, Elizabeth Lynch, Scott Atran -- The Dubbing Ceremony Revisited: Object Naming and Categorization in Infancy and Early Childhood / Sandra R. Waxman -- Mechanism and Explanation in the Development of Biological Thought: The Case of Disease / Frank C. Keil, Daniel T. Levin, Bethany A. Richman, Grant Gutheil -- A Developmental Perspective on Informal Biology / Giyoo Hatano, Kayoko Inagaki -- Mechanical Causality in Children's "Folkbiology" / Terry Kit-fong Au, Laura F. Romo -- How Biological Is Essentialism? / Susan A. Gelman, Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- Natural Kinds and Supraorganismal Individuals / Michael T. Ghiselin -- Are Whales Fish? / John Dupre -- Interdisciplinary Dissonance / David L. Hull.
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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Douglas L. Medin, Scott Atran -- Ethno-ornithology of the Ketengban People, Indonesian New Guinea / Jared Diamond, K. David Bishop -- Size as Limiting the Recognition of Biodiversity in Folkbiological Classifications: One of Four Factors Governing the Cultural Recognition of Biological Taxa / Eugene Hunn -- How a Folkbotanical System Can Be Both Natural and Comprehensive: One Maya Indian's View of the Plant World / Brent Berlin -- Models of Subsistence and Ethnobiological Knowledge: Between Extraction and Cultivation in Southeast Asia / Roy Ellen -- Itzaj Maya Folkbiological Taxonomy: Cognitive Universals and Cultural Particulars / Scott Atran -- Inductive Reasoning in Folkbiological Thought / John D. Coley, Douglas L. Medin, Julia Beth Proffitt, Elizabeth Lynch, Scott Atran -- The Dubbing Ceremony Revisited: Object Naming and Categorization in Infancy and Early Childhood / Sandra R. Waxman -- Mechanism and Explanation in the Development of Biological Thought: The Case of Disease / Frank C. Keil, Daniel T. Levin, Bethany A. Richman, Grant Gutheil -- A Developmental Perspective on Informal Biology / Giyoo Hatano, Kayoko Inagaki -- Mechanical Causality in Children's "Folkbiology" / Terry Kit-fong Au, Laura F. Romo -- How Biological Is Essentialism? / Susan A. Gelman, Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- Natural Kinds and Supraorganismal Individuals / Michael T. Ghiselin -- Are Whales Fish? / John Dupre -- Interdisciplinary Dissonance / David L. Hull.

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