The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega A Linguistic Perspective
28 ments have now completely switched to Kannada, while in the highland villages, children of school age (and young adults) woul ...
29 Government restrictions prevent the Solega from hunting, collecting timber and set- ting fi res to clear land for agriculture ...
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 31 A. Si, The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega, Ethnobiology, ...
32 “If a language has X, then it also has Y”) [ 102 ]. Although the existence of implica- tional universals has been known to li ...
33 minority. Although many models of ethnobiological classifi cation have been pro- posed in the past, the most infl uential by ...
34 A subgeneric taxon is given a primary name if it is either the prototype of the genus, or of major cultural importance. Name ...
35 The fact is that at this stage of linguistic inquiry, almost every new language that comes under the microscope reveals unant ...
36 One of the key proposals of the Berlin model is that ethnobiological classifi cation s worldwide share broad, predictable sim ...
37 2.4.1 Many Possible Classifi cation Schemes While it is unlikely that anyone would ever place oaks and robins in the same tax ...
38 found that the application of the phylogenetic species concept (in place of more traditional concepts based on interbreeding ...
39 scientifi c taxonomy, and that this observation indicates a universal human propen- sity to recognise real divisions in natur ...
40 material became available, these species were placed in new and often exclusively New Zealand genera ”. Such changes did not ...
41 classifi cations in equal proportions, he nevertheless concedes that grouping species into oversized genera and monotypic gen ...
42 by constantly referring to “Western science” or “scientifi c taxonomy” as though these endeavours were totally unbiased and f ...
43 The above fi nding is not particularly remarkable, as the ability to categorise novel stimuli by visual features has been dem ...
44 It is certainly not hard to fi nd counterexamples to Berlin ’s claim in scientifi c taxonomy: potato, tomato, eggplant and ni ...
45 and scientifi c classifi cation is not merely imperfect, but completely nonexistent. In Australia , where the biological land ...
46 taxon either). Waddy gets around this problem by the wholesale use of ‘covert com- plexes’, but this has the appearance of a ...
47 have names which possess certain properties, while point 5 makes a strong claim regarding the conceptualisation and content o ...
48 2.6.1 Solega Evidence from the Solega language strongly supports the hypothesis that utilitarian / cultural concerns largely ...
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