[Sigcr-l] Reading about how culture/language affects knowledge representation

[Jay.Bernstein at kbcc.cuny.edu]

If we are building a list of readings on this topic and not just 
suggesting an article or two for a beginning student, I would add the 
following studies of ethnobiological classification:

Atran, Scott. 1990.  Cultural Foundations of Natural History: Towards an 
Anthropology of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Berlin, Brent. 1992.  Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of 
Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies. Princeton: 
Princeton University Press.
Ellen, Roy. 1993. The Cultural Relations of Classification: An Analysis of 
Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram. Cambridge: Cambridge 
University Press.
Taylor, Paul. 1990. The Folk Biology of the Tobelo People: A Study of Folk 
Classification.  Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Wierzbicka, Anna.  1985. Language and Conceptual Analysis. Ann Arbor: 
Karoma Publishers.


Jay H. Bernstein, Ph.D.
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