Berlin Brent The chicken and the egg-head revisited; further evidence for the intellectualist bases of ethnobiological classification 1991. In Man and a half: essays in Pacific anthropology and ethnobiology in honour of Ralph Bulmer. Polynesian Society. Pp. 57-66.
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An evaluation of two different stances on ethnobiological knowledge. The intellectualists argue that knowledge associated with the classification of biological diversity, is fundamentally cognitively motivated. The utilitarianists claim that the purpose of classification is to assist humans to adjust to their habitats by giving names to plant and animal species that have practical consequences for human adaptation.
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The chicken and the egg-head revisited; further evidence for the intellectualist bases of ethnobiological classification
Man and a half: essays in Pacific anthropology and ethnobiology in honour of Ralph Bulmer
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