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Brent Berlin

Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies

Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1992.

GN468.4.B47 1992 Anthropology Library

"In this comprehensive synthesis of two decades of deep research, Brent Berlin presents a perspective that has revolutionized what anthropologists take ethnobiology to be... Berlin raises an ethnographically rich voice for placing anthropology squarely within the natural nd behavioral sciences."

From: Lawrence A. Hirschfield 1994 review of "Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies."
American Ethnologist, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 430-431.

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