Ethnoscience / By Wolff-Michael Roth ; Edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams

Description

Ethnoscience, a term that originated in the 1960s, frequently is defined as the field of inquiry concerned with the identification of the conceptual schemata that indigenous peoples use to organize their experience of the environment. Ethnoscience comprises the subfields of ethnoarcheology, ethnoastronomy, ethnobotany, ethnolinguistics, ethnomedicine, ethnopedology, ethnopsychology, ethnopsychiatry, and ethnozoology, among others.