Table of Contents
List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Contributors
Introduction Glauco Sanga
PART I: CLASSIFICATION
Recognition and Classification of Natural Kinds Marta Maddalon
Chapter 1. How a Folk Botanical System can be both Natural and Comprehensive: One Maya Indian’s View of the Plant World Brent Berlin
Chapter 2. Arbitrariness and Necessity in Ethnobiological Classification: Notes on some Persisting Issues Roy Ellen
Chapter 3. Tackling Aristotelian Ethnozoology Oddone Longo
Chapter 4. Current and Historical Problems in Classification: Levels and Associated Themes, from the Linguistic Point of View John B. Trumper Discussion Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro
PART II: NAMING
The Ways of Naming Nature and Through Nature Glauco Sanga
Chapter 5. The Role of Motivation (“iconymy”) in Naming: Six Responses to a List of Questions Mario Alinei
Chapter 6. Tapir and Squirrel: Further Nomenclatural Meanderings Toward a Universal Sound-symbolic Bestiary Brent Berlin
Chapter 7. Jivaro Streams: from Named Places to Placed Names Maurizio Gnerre
Chapter 8. What is Lost When Names are Forgotten? Jane H. Hill
Chapter 9. Examples of Metaphors from Fauna and Flora Giovan Battista Pellegrini
Chapter 10. Lexicalization of Natural Objects in Palawan Nicole Revel
Chapter 11. Levels and Mechanisms of Naming John B. Trumper
Discussion Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro
PART III: THOUGHT
The Symbolic Uses of Nature Daniel Fabre
Chapter 12. Thought of Nature and Cosmology Jean-Pierre Albert
Chapter 13. Symbolic Anthropology and Ethnoscience: Two Paradigms Marlène Albert-Llorca
Chapter 14. Doing, Thinking, Saying Giulio Angioni
Chapter 15. Thought, Knowledge, and Universals Jack Goody
Chapter 16. Bodily Humors in the Scholarly Tradition of Hindu and Galenic Medicine as an Example of Naive Theory and Implicate Universals Francis Zimmermann
Discussion Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro
PART IV: USE
How have We come to Use Nature, from a Practical Point-of-view? Antonino Colajanni
Chapter 17. Indigenous Knowledge: Subordination and Localism Giulio Angioni
Chapter 18. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge, the History of Science, and the Discourse of Development Roy Ellen and Holly Harris
Chapter 19. Two Reflections on Ecological Knowledge Tim Ingold
Chapter 20. Indigenous Knowledge and Cognitive Power Pier Giorgio Solinas
Chapter 21. The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Facilitating Sustainable Approaches to Development D. Michael Warren
Discussion Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro
PART V: CONSERVATION
What does it Mean to Conserve Nature? Cristina Papa
Chapter 22. Random Conservation and Deliberate Diffusion of Botanical Species: Some Evidence out of the Modern European Agricultural Past Mauro Ambrosoli
Chapter 23. Diversity, Protection, and Conservation: Local Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs Laurence Bérard and Philippe Marchenay
Chapter 24. Cultural Research on the Origin and Maintenance of Agricultural Diversity Stephen Brush
Chapter 25. Activation Practices, History of Environmental Resources, and Conservation Diego Moreno
Chapter 26. Forms of Knowledge in the Conservation of Natural Resources: from the Middle Ages to the Venetian “Tribe” Gherardo Ortalli
Discussion Edited by Gabriele Iannàccaro
Index
