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Zamudio, Fernando
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Hilgert, Norma Ines
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2018-02-15T19:40:39Z
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2015-05
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Zamudio, Fernando; Hilgert, Norma Ines; Multi-dimensionality and variability in folk classification of stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini); BioMed Central Ltd.; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine; 11; 1; 5-2015
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1746-4269
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http://hdl.handle.net/11336/36583
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Background: Not long ago Eugene Hunn suggested using a combination of cognitive, linguistic, ecological and evolutionary theories in order to account for the dynamic character of ethnoecology in the study of folk classification systems. In this way he intended to question certain homogeneity in folk classifications models and deepen in the analysis and interpretation of variability in folk classifications. This paper studies how a rural culturally mixed population of the Atlantic Forest of Misiones (Argentina) classified honey-producing stingless bees according to the linguistic, cognitive and ecological dimensions of folk classification. We also analyze the socio-ecological meaning of binomialization in naming and the meaning of general local variability in the appointment of stingless bees. Methods: We used three different approaches: the classical approach developed by Brent Berlin which relies heavily on linguistic criteria, the approach developed by Eleonor Rosch which relies on psychological (cognitive) principles of categorization and finally we have captured the ecological dimension of folk classification in local narratives. For the second approximation, we developed ways of measuring the degree of prototypicality based on a total of 107 comparisons of the type "X is similar to Y" identified in personal narratives. Results: Various logical and grouping strategies coexist and were identified as: graded of lateral linkage, hierarchical and functional. Similarity judgments among folk taxa resulted in an implicit logic of classification graded according to taxa's prototypicality. While there is a high agreement on naming stingless bees with monomial names, a considerable number of underrepresented binomial names and lack of names were observed. Two possible explanations about reported local naming variability are presented. Conclusions: We support the multidimensionality of folk classification systems. This confirms the specificity of local classification systems but also reflects the use of grouping strategies and mechanisms commonly observed in other cultural groups, such as the use of similarity judgments between more or less prototypical organisms. Also we support the idea that alternative naming results from a process of fragmentation of knowledge or incomplete transmission of knowledge. These processes lean on the facts that culturally based knowledge, on the one hand, and biologic knowledge of nature on the other, can be acquired through different learning pathways.
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eng
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BioMed Central Ltd.
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
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Folk Classifications
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Local Variability
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Culturally Mixed Population
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Prototypicality
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Binomiality
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Multi-dimensionality and variability in folk classification of stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini)
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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2016-11-17T16:28:01Z
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11
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1
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Reino Unido
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Londres
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Fil: Zamudio, Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (p); Argentina
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Fil: Hilgert, Norma Ines. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientiâficas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Nordeste. Instituto de Biologia Subtropical. Instituto de Biologia Subtropical - Nodo Puerto Iguazu; Argentina
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/11/1/41
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-015-0029-z
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