Folk biology in the New Guinea Highlands

By R. Bulmer. 1974

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Citations in the corpus

• THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECT CATEGORIZATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN: HIERARCHICAL INCLUSIVENESS, AGE, PERCEPTUAL ATTRIBUTE, AND GROUP VERSUS INDIVIDUAL ANALYSES (2010, background): “Indeed, ethnobiologists contend that L2, a middle level of inclusiveness, actually occupies a psychologically privileged taxonomic position that best captures categories readily found in nature and affords the fundamental constituents in systems of folkbiological categorization, reasoning, and use (”
• Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of Two Biologies (2004, background): “…who otherwise differ in their views of folk taxonomy tend to agree that one level best captures discontinuities in nature and provides the fundamental constituents in all systems of folk-biological categorization, reasoning, and use (Bulmer 1974; Descola 1996; Ellen 1999; Hunn 1982; Morris 1996).”