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ethnoscience  

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  • Ethnoscience is the study of what native people know about the world around them, including biology, zoology, and astronomy. This discipline is concerned with the cultural knowledge and classification systems in a given society. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Ethnoscience]

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