Glauco Sanga teaches at the Ca'Foscari University, Venice.

"...the book is well-edited and most contributions are written comprehensively. It will certainly be useful to researchers with an interest in cognitive aspects of ethnopharmacology, but also ethnoscience in general."  ·  JRAI

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesPreface and AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductionGlauco SangaPART I: CLASSIFICATIONRecognition and Classification of Natural KindsMarta MaddalonChapter 1. How a Folk Botanical System can be both Natural and Comprehensive: One Maya Indian’s View of the Plant WorldBrent BerlinChapter 2. Arbitrariness and Necessity in Ethnobiological Classification: Notes on some Persisting IssuesRoy EllenChapter 3. Tackling Aristotelian EthnozoologyOddone LongoChapter 4. Current and Historical Problems in Classification: Levels and Associated Themes, from the Linguistic Point of ViewJohn B. Trumper Discussion Edited by Gabriele IannàccaroPART II: NAMINGThe Ways of Naming Nature and Through NatureGlauco SangaChapter 5. The Role of Motivation (“iconymy”) in Naming: Six Responses to a List of QuestionsMario AlineiChapter 6. Tapir and Squirrel: Further Nomenclatural Meanderings Toward a Universal Sound-symbolic BestiaryBrent BerlinChapter 7. Jivaro Streams: from Named Places to Placed NamesMaurizio GnerreChapter 8. What is Lost When Names are Forgotten?Jane H. HillChapter 9. Examples of Metaphors from Fauna and FloraGiovan Battista PellegriniChapter 10. Lexicalization of Natural Objects in PalawanNicole RevelChapter 11. Levels and Mechanisms of NamingJohn B. TrumperDiscussionEdited by Gabriele IannàccaroPART III: THOUGHTThe Symbolic Uses of NatureDaniel FabreChapter 12. Thought of Nature and CosmologyJean-Pierre AlbertChapter 13. Symbolic Anthropology and Ethnoscience: Two ParadigmsMarlène Albert-LlorcaChapter 14. Doing, Thinking, SayingGiulio AngioniChapter 15. Thought, Knowledge, and UniversalsJack GoodyChapter 16. Bodily Humors in the Scholarly Tradition of Hindu and Galenic Medicine as an Example of Naive Theory and Implicate UniversalsFrancis ZimmermannDiscussionEdited by Gabriele IannàccaroPART IV: USEHow have We come to Use Nature, from a Practical Point-of-view?Antonino ColajanniChapter 17. Indigenous Knowledge: Subordination and LocalismGiulio AngioniChapter 18. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge, the History of Science, and the Discourse of DevelopmentRoy Ellen and Holly HarrisChapter 19. Two Reflections on Ecological KnowledgeTim IngoldChapter 20. Indigenous Knowledge and Cognitive PowerPier Giorgio SolinasChapter 21. The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Facilitating Sustainable Approaches to DevelopmentD. Michael WarrenDiscussionEdited by Gabriele IannàccaroPART V: CONSERVATIONWhat does it Mean to Conserve Nature?Cristina PapaChapter 22. Random Conservation and Deliberate Diffusion of Botanical Species: Some Evidence out of the Modern European Agricultural PastMauro AmbrosoliChapter 23. Diversity, Protection, and Conservation: Local Agricultural Products and FoodstuffsLaurence Bérard and Philippe MarchenayChapter 24. Cultural Research on the Origin and Maintenance of Agricultural DiversityStephen BrushChapter 25. Activation Practices, History of Environmental Resources, and ConservationDiego MorenoChapter 26. Forms of Knowledge in the Conservation of Natural Resources: from the Middle Ages to the Venetian “Tribe”Gherardo OrtalliDiscussionEdited by Gabriele IannàccaroIndex