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From earth to art : the many aspects of the plant-world in Anglo-Saxon England : proceedings of the First ASPNS Symposium, University of Glasgow, 5-7 April 2000
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ISBN: 9042008075 Year: 2003 Volume: 148 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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Rosliny w zyciu czlowieka i ochronie srodowiska
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ISBN: 8322912439 Year: 1995 Volume: 1728 Publisher: Wroclaw Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego


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Plants and people : choices and diversity through time
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ISBN: 9781842175149 1842175149 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford Oxbow Books

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Agriculture and it origins have long been lively and innovative subjects ot research, involving people working in a variety of disciplines ; indeed the complexity of agricultural processes and their organisation withinparticular communities and societies requires a broad analytical scale on which to investigate them. This volume is the outcome of a collaborative research programme combining archeologists, archaeobatanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomist, aimed at establishing new common ground for integrating different approaches, viewing agriculture from the standpoint of the human actors involved. Each article provides a synthrtic, interdisciplinary overview of various aspects of the relationship between people and plants across wide ranging and diverse spatial and temporal milieux, including such considerations as crop diversity througt time, the use of wild foodstuffs, social context, status and choices of food plants. This is the first of three volumes in the EARTH series on the developmental history of agriculture. -- Quatrième de couverture


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Relational archaeologies : humans, animals, things
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ISBN: 9780415525329 9780415525312 0415525314 0415525322 9780203553138 9781135903121 9781135903190 9781135903268 Year: 2013 Publisher: London ; New York Routledge

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Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances. Of those things that are alive, we acknowledge that some have agency while others, such as humans, have more advanced qualities such as consciousness, reason and intentionality. So deeply-seated is this metaphysical belief, along with the related distinctions we draw between subject/object, mind/body and nature/culture that many of us tacitly assume past groups approached and apprehended the world in a similar fashion. Relational Archaeologies questions how such a view of human beings, 'other-than-human' creatures and things affects our reconstruction of past beliefs and practices. It proceeds from the position that, in many cases, past societies understood their place in the world as positional rather than categorical, as persons bound up in reticular arrangements with similar and not so similar forms regardless of their substantive qualities. Relational Archaeologies explores this idea by emphasizing how humans, animals and things come to exist by virtue of the dynamic and fluid processes of connection and transaction. In highlighting various counter-Modern notions of what it means 'to be' and how these can be teased apart using archaeological materials, contributors provide a range of approaches from primarily theoretical/historicized treatments of the topic to practical applications or case studies from the Americas, the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia --


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Ethnobiological Classification
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ISBN: 9780691094694 0691094691 1306985803 1400862590 0691601267 9781400862597 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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A founder of and leading thinker in the field of modern ethnobiology looks at the widespread regularities in the classification and naming of plants and animals among peoples of traditional, nonliterate societies--regularities that persist across local environments, cultures, societies, and languages. Brent Berlin maintains that these patterns can best be explained by the similarity of human beings' largely unconscious appreciation of the natural affinities among groupings of plants and animals: people recognize and name a grouping of organisms quite independently of its actual or potential usefulness or symbolic significance in human society. Berlin's claims challenge those anthropologists who see reality as a "set of culturally constructed, often unique and idiosyncratic images, little constrained by the parameters of an outside world." Part One of this wide-ranging work focuses primarily on the structure of ethnobiological classification inferred from an analysis of descriptions of individual systems. Part Two focuses on the underlying processes involved in the functioning and evolution of ethnobiological systems in general.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Fauna and flora in the Middle Ages : studies of the medieval environment and its impact on the human mind : Papers delivered at the International medieval Congress, Leeds, in 2000, 2001 and 2002
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ISBN: 9783631563021 3631563027 Year: 2007 Volume: Bd. 8 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main [etc.] Peter Lang

L'arbre : histoire naturelle et symbolique de l'arbre, du bois et du fruit au Moyen Age
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ISBN: 2863771124 9782863771129 Year: 1993 Volume: 2 Publisher: Paris Léopard d'or


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Contribution aux études ethnobotaniques et floristiques en République populaire du Bénin
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ISBN: 9290281529 9789290281528 Year: 1989 Volume: vol *13

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