Ndumba Folk Biology and General Principles of Ethnobotanical Classification and Nomenclature

Terence E. Hays

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Categorization, perception, and language Linguistic and Cultural Studies Australian Indigenous Culture and History

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Brent Berlin's proposed “general principles of classification and nomenclature” are examined as they apply to folk biology in Ndumba, a Papua New Guinea highlands society. Focusing on Ndumba folk zoology, supplemented with a previous analysis of their folk botany, Berlin's analytical schema for ethnobiological classification is supported, but principles of nomenclature in ethnobiology appear to be in need of reconsideration. [ethnosemantics, folk biology, language universals, Papua New Guinea]

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