Classification from antiquity to modern times [online] : Sources, methods, and theories from an interdisciplinary perspective / Tanja Pommerening, Walter Bisang

Frontmatter Preface Contents Classification and categorization through time

Part I: Classification in ancient times Categorization and explanation of the world in hesiod’s theogony What is a horse? Lexical acculturation and classification in Egyptian, Sumerian, and Nahuatl All creatures great and small : The ancient egyptian view of the animal world Classification systems and pharmacological theory in medieval collections of materia medica: A short history from the antiquity to the end of the 12th century Classification in ancient Egyptian medical formulae and its role in re-discovering comprehensive and specific concepts of drugs and effects

Part II: Classification in modern times Classification between grammar and culture : a cross-linguistic perspective Classification and naming of living objects : a biologist’s perspective (Extended abstract) Tools, agency and the category of living things Categorizing natural objects: Some issues arising from recent work in cognitive anthropology and ethnobiological classification

Part III: Tools Frames as a model for the analysis and description of concepts, conceptual structures, conceptual change and concept hierarchies Tracing concepts : Semantic network analysis as a heuristic device for classification Index List of contributors

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