Ethnoscience /
Ethnoscience, a term that originated in the 1960s, frequently is defined as the field of inquiry concerned with the identification of the conceptual schemata that indigenous peoples use to organize their experience of the environment. Ethnoscience comprises the subfields of ethnoarcheology, ethnoast...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Science and technology studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Ethnoscience, a term that originated in the 1960s, frequently is defined as the field of inquiry concerned with the identification of the conceptual schemata that indigenous peoples use to organize their experience of the environment. Ethnoscience comprises the subfields of ethnoarcheology, ethnoastronomy, ethnobotany, ethnolinguistics, ethnomedicine, ethnopedology, ethnopsychology, ethnopsychiatry, and ethnozoology, among others. A common interest to all of the early ethnoscientific studies was how particular cultures reduced the experiential chaos of their surrounding environment into conceptual schemes, whereby culture is understood as the sum of all folk classifications of a society (Sturtevant, 1964). These folk classifications constitute a people's (Greek ethno-) science, its way of ordering its material, and social universe. At the same time, the term ethnoscience also is used as an alternative to ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529745085 152974508X 9781526421036 1526421038 |