Flashcards on Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology Research Methods
Ethnobotany & Ethnopharmacology Research Methods Guide
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Ethnobotany
39 cards
Card 1
Question: What is ethnobotany?
Answer: The study of the relationships between people and plants, including how plants are named, classified, and used by different cultural groups.
Card 2
Question: What does linguistic ethnobotany study?
Answer: The study of language used to define relationships between plants and people.
Card 3
Question: What is ethnosemantics in ethnobotany?
Answer: The study of the meanings of words, especially as they relate to folk taxonomies of plants and animals.
Card 4
Question: What is ethnotaxonomy?
Answer: The study of the taxonomic systems defined and used by individual ethnic groups to classify plants and animals.
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Question: What is folk classification?
Answer: The way members of a language community organize knowledge about their biological world (how they name and categorize plants and animals).
Card 6
Question: What are recommended practices for recording indigenous plant names?
Answer: Train in articulatory phonetics, make audio/video recordings with at least two informants, and have transcriptions and analyses done by a linguist.
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Question: What are the main types of dialogue-based ethnobotanical category labels?
Answer: Linguistic/lexical categories (primary and secondary names), inflectional categories, hierarchical categories, and hidden/grouping categories.
Card 8
Question: What is a primary name in folk classification?
Answer: An unmodified name for something (e.g., 'oak' for Quercus spp.).
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Question: What is a secondary name in folk classification?
Answer: A modifier applied to a primary lexeme to make a more specific name (e.g., 'blue oak' or 'white oak').
Card 10
Question: Give examples of hierarchical ethnotaxonomical ranks.
Answer: Unique beginner (kingdom), life form (families), generic taxa (genus), specific and varietal taxa (species and varieties), and intermediate levels.