The native mind and the cultural construction of nature.
"Surveys show that our growing concern over protecting the environment is accompanied by a diminishing sense of human contact with nature. Many people have little commonsense knowledge about nature—are unable, for example, to identify local plants and trees or describe how these plants and anim...
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| Format: | Ouvrage |
| Language: | Anglais |
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Cambridge:
The MIT Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Life and mind : Philosophical issues in biology and psychology.
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Table of Contents:
- Universals and Devolution: General Claims
- Study Populations, Methods, and Models
- Devolution and Relative Expertise
- Development of Folkbiological Cognition
- Culture as a Notional, Not Natural, Kind
- Folkecology and the Spirit of the Commons: Garden Experiments in Mesoamerica
- Cultural Epidemiology
- Mental Models and Intergroup Conflict in North America
- Conclusions and Projections.