Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. PART ONE: Plan
5. CHAPTER ONE. On the Making of a Comparative Ethnobiology 3
6. CHAPTER TWO. The Primacy of Generic Taxa in Ethnobiological Classification 52
7. CHAPTER THREE. The Nature of Specific Taxa 102
8. CHAPTER FOUR. Natural and Not So Natural Higher-Order Categories 134
9. PART Two: Process
10. CHAPTER FIVE. Patterned Variation in Ethnobiological Knowledge 199
11. CHAPTER SIX. Manchúng and Bíkua: The Nonarbitrariness of Ethnobiological Nomenclature 232
12. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Substance and Evolution of Ethnobiological Categories 260
13. References 291
14. Author Index 309
15. Index of Scientific Names 313
16. Index of Ethnoscientific Names 322
17. Subject Index 331