‘eagle’=‘bird’: a note on the structure and evolution of Shoshoni ethnoornithological nomenclature1
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Ethnologist
- Vol. 3 (3) , 481-488
- https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1976.3.3.02a00060
Abstract
This paper provides an ethnozoological example of the processes described by Berlin for the evolution of ethnobotanical nomenclature. An unusual feature of Shoshoni ethnoornithology is the existence of named intermediate categories, which precede the life form label, of which they are the source; furthermore, they seem to derive from a process different from those postulated by Berlin. The conceptual distinction which the intermediate categories make and the intermediate life‐form polysemy are not unique to Shoshoni. These facts may require a reconsideration of the significance and temporal ordering of intermediate categories in Berlin's theory.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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