Bernstein, Jay H. (1996) Higher-order categories in Brunei Dusun Ethnobotany: The folk-classification of rainforest plants. In: Edwards, D.S. and Booth, W.E. and Choy, S.C., eds. Tropical Rainforest Research — Current Issues: Proceedings of the Conference held in Bandar Seri Begawan, April 1993. Monographiae Biologicae . Kluwer Academic, pp. 435-450. ISBN 978-94-010-7255-7. E-ISBN 978-94-009-1685-2. (doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1685-2_43) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:18818)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1685-2_43 |
Abstract
For more than 100 years botanists, agricultural scientists, and foresters working in island Southeast Asia have collected indigenous names for plants (e.g. Burkill 1935, Corner 1940, Ochse 1931, Quisumbing 1951). The reasons for this are plain. There needs to be some provisional way of identifying species new to science, scientists need to communicate with local people about plants, and various government departments require a convenient set of names for efficient administration. Unfortunately, it is also hazardous to use names and other isolated fragments of local knowledge about plants outside of the ethnobotanical context from which they are drawn (Ellen, this volume). Terms and associated data have not always been collected carefully, sometimes displaying linguistic and cultural ignorance. In the case of Brunei, Ashton’s (Ashton 1964, also Pukul & Ashton n.d.) use of indigenous terms for trees keyed to scientific terms is open to confusion. Native terms are used as if they were vernacular synonyms for species names, but there is an unexplained overlap of names. In some cases where there are no known vernacular names new ones are suggested.
Item Type: | Book section |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1007/978-94-009-1685-2_43 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Brunei Darussalam; Borneo; ethnobotany; Dusun; human-rainforest interactions |
Subjects: |
Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation |
Depositing User: | M.A. Ziai |
Date Deposited: | 16 May 2009 12:29 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 09:57 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/18818 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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