Linguistic Ethnobiology 319 v 20. Cognitive Studies in Ethnobiology: What Can We Learn About the Mind as Well as Human Environmental Interaction?

Ethnobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 319-333

  Hunn, Eugene S ^a   Brown, Cecil H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Folk classification and nomenclature differences across societal types; Linguistic ethnobiology, fieldwork learning names, people use in talking about plants and animals; Names for biological things differing from personal names

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886473182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118015872.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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