Sistemas indigenas de classificação de aves : aspectos comparativos, ecologicos e evolutivos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1985

RESUMO

In recent years na increasing number of ethnobiological studies have been undertaken to better understand how human populations perceive and categorize information with respect to the liveng world around them. A universal hypothesis with respect to the living world around them. A universal hypothesis was introduced by Berlin, Breedlove and Raven (1973) dscribing similarities between systems of classification. In the past ten years research has, in general, reinforced these proposed universals of classification. But there is still a lack of adequate information as to how biological units are put together. Clearly, studies of a more restricted nature than the word and yet more general in scope than just on culture could contribute useful information along this line. This study examines classification system of birds among four indigenous Amazonian groups of people all with similar but not identical cultures and environments (Wayampi, Urubu-Kaapor, Sater-Mawe, Apalaí). The first three are related linguistically (all from the Tupi linguistic trunk) whereas Apalaí is from the Karib linguistic family ( an entirely different trunk). The purpose of this thesis is to identify those aspects which seem to be characteristic of tupi classification system in order to better understand the roles which the physical environment, culture and language play in the evolution of those systems ...Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations.

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indios da america do sul - brasil - linguas aves - brasil - classificação aves - brasil - nomenclatura popular

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