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- noun The
scientific study ofethnic cultures
Etymologies
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ethno- + science
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Examples
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True, the label evokes the American anthropological school - also known as "ethnoscience" - that was quite influential in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Niqsaq and napaaqtuq: issues in Inupiaq Eskimo life-form classification and ethnoscience.
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Similarly, Chomsky (1995) argues that the intuitions elicited by the above thought-experiments at most constitute data for ethnoscience, but “the study of how people attain cognitive states, interact, and so on, will proceed along its separate course.”
Externalism About Mental Content Lau, Joe 2008
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