Loan and inheritance patterns in hunter-gatherer ethnobiological systems

Bowern, Claire; Haynie, Hannah; Sheard, Catherine; Alpher, Barry; Epps, Patience; Hill, Jane; McConvell, Patrick

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Loan and inheritance patterns in hunter-gatherer ethnobiological systems

Date

2014

Authors

Bowern, Claire

Haynie, Hannah

Sheard, Catherine

Alpher, Barry

Epps, Patience

Hill, Jane

McConvell, Patrick

Publisher

Society of Ethnobiology

Abstract

We compare the etymologies of ethnobiological nomenclature in 130 hunter-gatherer and agriculturist languages in Australia, North America, and Amazonia. Previous work has identified correlations between systems of ethnobiological terminology and dominant