PLANTS IN LANGUAGE AND CLASSIFICATION AMONG BC FIRST NATIONS ...
Studies on the naming and classification of plants by First Peoples of British Columbia began with the works of early ethnographers like Franz Boas. In the 1970s, however, research in this area became more focused in BC, following general trends in ethnobiology and cognitive anthropology in document...
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BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly
2013
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184111 https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184111 |
| Summary: | Studies on the naming and classification of plants by First Peoples of British Columbia began with the works of early ethnographers like Franz Boas. In the 1970s, however, research in this area became more focused in BC, following general trends in ethnobiology and cognitive anthropology in documenting systems of biological “folk taxonomy” in different cultures and languages worldwide. This research reflects collaboration with ethnobotanists, linguists and Indigenous speakers and knowledge holders of First Nations’ languages, and includes recording the names and conceptual relationships of plant species and other plant categories. Identification of factors influencing plant nomenclature and shaping plant classification systems, and how these systems have changed over time and vary from language to language, has been a focus of the research. Most BC First Nations languages incorporate names for between about 120 and 150 different species or basic “generic rank” categories of plants. These tend to be arranged ... : BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No 179: Ethnobotany in BC: Autumn 2013 ... |
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