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Book Synopsis Numerous scholars, in particular anthropologists, historians, economists, linguists, and biologists, have, over the last few years, studied forms of knowledge and use of nature, and of the ways nature can be protected and conserved. Some of the most prominent scholars have come together in this volume to reflect on what has been achieved so far, to compare the work carried out in the past, to discuss the problems that have emerged from different research projects, and to map out the way forward.
Trade Review "...the book is well-edited and most contributions are written comprehensively. It will certainly be useful to researchers with an interest in cognitive aspects of ethnopharmacology, but also ethnoscience in general." · JRAI
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Glauco Sanga
PART I: CLASSIFICATION
Recognition and Classification of Natural Kinds
Marta Maddalon
Chapter 1. How a Folk Botanical System can be both Natural and Comprehensive: One Maya Indian’s View of the Plant World
Brent Berlin
Chapter 2. Arbitrariness and Necessity in Ethnobiological Classification: Notes on some Persisting Issues
Roy Ellen
Chapter 3. Tackling Aristotelian Ethnozoology
Oddone Longo
Chapter 4. Current and Historical Problems in Classification: Levels and Associated Themes, from the Linguistic Point of View
John B. Trumper Discussion Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro
PART II: NAMING
The Ways of Naming Nature and Through Nature
Glauco Sanga
Chapter 5. The Role of Motivation (“iconymy”) in Naming: Six Responses to a List of Questions
Mario Alinei
Chapter 6. Tapir and Squirrel: Further Nomenclatural Meanderings Toward a Universal Sound-symbolic Bestiary
Brent Berlin
Chapter 7. Jivaro Streams: from Named Places to Placed Names
Maurizio Gnerre
Chapter 8. What is Lost When Names are Forgotten?
Jane H. Hill
Chapter 9. Examples of Metaphors from Fauna and Flora
Giovan Battista Pellegrini
Chapter 10. Lexicalization of Natural Objects in Palawan
Nicole Revel
Chapter 11. Levels and Mechanisms of Naming
John B. Trumper
Discussion
Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro
PART III: THOUGHT
The Symbolic Uses of Nature
Daniel Fabre
Chapter 12. Thought of Nature and Cosmology
Jean-Pierre Albert
Chapter 13. Symbolic Anthropology and Ethnoscience: Two Paradigms
Marlène Albert-Llorca
Chapter 14. Doing, Thinking, Saying
Giulio Angioni
Chapter 15. Thought, Knowledge, and Universals
Jack Goody
Chapter 16. Bodily Humors in the Scholarly Tradition of Hindu and Galenic Medicine as an Example of Naive Theory and Implicate Universals
Francis Zimmermann
Discussion
Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro
PART IV: USE
How have We come to Use Nature, from a Practical Point-of-view?
Antonino Colajanni
Chapter 17. Indigenous Knowledge: Subordination and Localism
Giulio Angioni
Chapter 18. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge, the History of Science, and the Discourse of Development
Roy Ellen and Holly Harris
Chapter 19. Two Reflections on Ecological Knowledge
Tim Ingold
Chapter 20. Indigenous Knowledge and Cognitive Power
Pier Giorgio Solinas
Chapter 21. The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Facilitating Sustainable Approaches to Development
D. Michael Warren
Discussion
Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro
PART V: CONSERVATION
What does it Mean to Conserve Nature?
Cristina Papa
Chapter 22. Random Conservation and Deliberate Diffusion of Botanical Species: Some Evidence out of the Modern European Agricultural Past
Mauro Ambrosoli
Chapter 23. Diversity, Protection, and Conservation: Local Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs
Laurence Bérard and Philippe Marchenay
Chapter 24. Cultural Research on the Origin and Maintenance of Agricultural Diversity
Stephen Brush
Chapter 25. Activation Practices, History of Environmental Resources, and Conservation
Diego Moreno
Chapter 26. Forms of Knowledge in the Conservation of Natural Resources: from the Middle Ages to the Venetian “Tribe”
Gherardo Ortalli
Discussion
Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro
Index
