Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-lnqnp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T09:02:40.448Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Xenophobia and other reasons to wonder about the domain specificity of folk-biological classification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Terence E. Hays
Terence E. Hays
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Geography, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 02908 [email protected]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Atran adds a synthesis of much of the literature on folk-biological classification to important new experimental data relevant to long-standing inferences about the structure of folk taxonomies. What we know about such systems is somewhat overstated, and key issues remain unresolved, especially concerning the centrality of “generic species,” the primacy of “general purpose” taxonomies, and domain specificity.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 575 - 576
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)