Author: Medin, Douglas L.; & Atran, Scott; editors:
Title: Folkbiology
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (1999). orig.boards. 24x15cm, ix,504 pp. Textual graphs,charts,tables. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers. Includes: Jared Diamond & K. David Bishop "Ethno- ornithology of the Ketengban People, Indonesian New Guinea"; E. Hunn "Size as Limiting the Recognition of Biodiversity in Folkbiological Classification: One of Four Factors Governing the Cultural Recognition of Biological Data"; B. Berlin "How a Folkbotanical System Can be Both Natural & Comprehensive: One Maya Indian's View of the Plant World"; R. Ellen "Models of Subsistence & Ethnobiological Knowledge: Between Extraction & Cultivation in Southeast Asia"; S. Atran "Irzaj Maya Folkbiological Taxonomy: Cognitive Universals & Cultural Particulars"; J.D.Coley; et al: "Inductive Reasoning in Folkbiological Thought"; S.R. Waxman "The Dubbing Ceremony Revisited: Object Naming and Categorization in Infancy & Early Childhood"; F.C. Keil; et al: "Mechanism & Explanation in the Development of Biological Thought: The Case of Disease"; G,. Hatano & K. Inagaki "A Developmental Perspective on Informal Biology"; T.K. Au &L.F. Romo "Mechanical Causality in Children's 'Folkbiology'"; S.A. Gelman & L. A. Hirschfield "How Biological is Essentialism?"; M.T,. Ghiselin " Natural Kinds & Supraorganizational Individuals"; J. Dupré "Are Whales Fish?"; D.L. Huill "Interdisciplinary Dissonance".

Keywords: Cognitive Anthropology, Folkbiology Folk, Folklore New Guinea, Ketengban Biology, Ethnology Taxonomy, Ethnobiology, Ethnobotany, Ethnography, Cognition Cultural