Re: sci.ethnobiology?

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From: Peter Werner
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 1994 01:29

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>    Careful with that axe, Eugene.  "Ethnoscience" is actually a
>methodological and attitudinal approach in cultural anthropology,
>particularly in evidence in the 1960's and early '70's.  It was not
>"interdisciplinary" but was instead an emphasis on cultural modes of
>classification, of taxonomies (not just of animals), and the like, as a
>window into the thinking of that culture.  So it is particularly
>confusing in an anthropology discussion to call ethnobotany "ethnoscience."

Good ethnobotany takes combines the economic botany and the 
ethnoscientific approaches.  Nancy Turner's work is an example of 
ethnobotany that covers all bases.

This is one reason why I like to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature 
of the proposed newsgroup; it reflects the interdisciplinary nature of 
ethnobiology.

Peter Werner

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