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Christopher Pound (pound@is.rice.edu) wrote:
: Right, so how about sci.ethno?  It seems to fit the naming conventions
: better.  It probably would make it sound more attractive to people who
: care about other or more general ethnoscientific stuff.  Plus, it doesn't
: have that key morpheme "bio" that will set off alarms for so many
: net.naysayers.  All you have to do is explain that "ethnoscience" is 
: significantly different in its meaning and history from both ethnology 
: and ethology. 

    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."

      -Mike
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