| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 504 pages) : illustrations |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Bradford book.
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| Note |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Douglas L. Medin, Scott Atran -- Ethno-ornithology of the Ketengban People, Indonesian New Guinea / Jared Diamond, K. David Bishop -- Size as Limiting the Recognition of Biodiversity in Folkbiological Classifications: One of Four Factors Governing the Cultural Recognition of Biological Taxa / Eugene Hunn -- How a Folkbotanical System Can Be Both Natural and Comprehensive: One Maya Indian's View of the Plant World / Brent Berlin -- Models of Subsistence and Ethnobiological Knowledge: Between Extraction and Cultivation in Southeast Asia / Roy Ellen -- Itzaj Maya Folkbiological Taxonomy: Cognitive Universals and Cultural Particulars / Scott Atran -- Inductive Reasoning in Folkbiological Thought / John D. Coley, Douglas L. Medin, Julia Beth Proffitt, Elizabeth Lynch, Scott Atran -- Dubbing Ceremony Revisited: Object Naming and Categorization in Infancy and Early Childhood / Sandra R. Waxman -- Mechanism and Explanation in the Development of Biological Thought: The Case of Disease / Frank C. Keil, Daniel T. Levin, Bethany A. Richman, Grant Gutheil -- A Developmental Perspective on Informal Biology / Giyoo Hatano, Kayoko Inagaki -- Mechanical Causality in Children's "Folkbiology" / Terry Kit-fong Au, Laura F. Romo -- How Biological Is Essentialism? / Susan A. Gelman, Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- Natural Kinds and Supraorganismal Individuals / Michael T. Ghiselin -- Are Whales Fish? / John Dupre -- Interdisciplinary Dissonance / David L. Hull. |
| Access |
Access restricted to York University faculty, staff and students. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Ethnobiology.
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Ethnobiology. |
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Folklore.
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Folklore. |
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Cognition and culture.
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Cognition and culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Folk literature.
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Folklore.
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Folklore.
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Folk literature.
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| Added Author |
Medin, Douglas L.
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Atran, Scott, 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Folkbiology. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999 0262133490 (DLC) 98050861 (OCoLC)40339865 |
| ISBN |
9780262279611 (electronic book) |
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0262279614 (electronic book) |
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0585335990 (electronic book) |
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9780585335995 (electronic book) |
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0262133490 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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9780262133494 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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026263192X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780262631921 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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