The Utilitarian Factor in Folk Biological Classification

By E. Hunn. 1982

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Fielding Climate Change in Cultural Anthropology (2009, background): “Ethnoscientifi c research sought to understand local knowledge as a system of taxonomies and classifi cations (Atran 1985; Posey 1984, 1986; Hunn 1982; Berlin et al. 1974).”
Building Better Causal Theories: A Fuzzy Set Approach to Typologies in Organization Research (2011, background): “At a most basic level, cognitive researchers have argued that the human mind's ability to classify is better understood in terms of a conceptual structure consisting of core and peripheral categories (Hahn & Chater, 1997; Hunn, 1982; Rosch, 1978, 1981).”
Whakapapa as a Maori Mental Construct: Some Implications for the Debate over Genetic Modification of Organisms (2004, background): “Some support for the cultural relativists’ perspective is provided by the utilitarian hypothesis, which emphasizes that usefulness and signiﬁcance are of primary importance in the selection of what is included in a particular classiﬁcation (Hunn 1982, 835 ).”