Major Categories in Shipibo Ethnobiological Taxonomy  

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Valenzuela, Pilar

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 42 no. 1 (Mar. 2000), page 1-36.
Fulltext: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 1-36.pdf (4.4MB)

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The Shipibo system of ethnobiological classification is found to be generally in accordance with the cross-cultural generalizations of Brent Berlin and Cecil H. Brown, among others, specifically with regard to the development and organization of major categories, such as life-forms. Nevertheless, the Shipibo system also presents certain special problems for the cross-cultural study of ethnobiological taxonomies, displaying unexpected intermediate zoolo- gical ranks. Finally, details of Shipibo categorization of plants and animals, including the naming of categories, suggest that human intervention in taxo- nomic systems needs to be considered beyond the mere perception of apparent characteristics of the items classified.

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