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Preferred term
ethnosemantics
Definition
- Ethnosemantics, sometimes called “ethnoscience,” is the scientific study of the ways in which people label and classify the social, cultural, and environmental phenomena of their world. Beginning in the 1960s, ethnosemantics continued the Boasian tradition of focusing on linguistic relativity and the importance of native language terms, with a focus on developing theories of particular cultures, rather than an over-arching theory of culture in general. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Ethnosemantics]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/ethnosemantics
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