EEB330H1 Lecture Notes - Systematic Botany, Folk Taxonomy, Lexeme
9 Feb 2013
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Folk taxonomy/ancients (to 1st century ad until present) Scientific taxonomy (17th: apothecaries (2nd to 15th, herbalists (16th, encyclopedists (18th, natural systems (19th, evolutionary systems (20th) Phylogenetic systems (21st: every language incorporates a type of classification system, we also have views on grouping things, brent berlin was exploring individual folk taxonomy based on different languages. Linguistic ethnobotanists were interested in how people think and how people look at the world. These people would look more closely at the names that people gave to plants. People are more aware to things that are more salient, or important to them. Folk biological classification systems were hierarchical, more or less inclusive groups that were nested within each other. Most were founded on single word names (generic). These names were unanalyzable primary lexemes (a single word that can"t be broken down). These folk generics had primacy and were the first elements of classification historically.
