Willdenowia 36
Willdenowia – Annals of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
ISSN 0511-9618
© 2006 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem.
Hiepko, P.: Eipo plant nomenclature and classification compared with other folk taxonomic systems.
Willdenowia 36 (Special Issue): 447-453.
doi:10.3372/wi.36.36142
Abstract
Ethnobotanical data collected among the Eipo people in the
Central Highlands of West New Guinea are compared with the
theoretical model of ethnotaxonomic systems developed by Berlin and
co-workers based on ethnobotanical studies in Central and South
America. The Eipo plant nomenclature appears to fit well in Berlin's
general principles and corroborates the existence of universals in
folk classification systems.
Key words:
ethnobotany, ethnotaxonomy, linguistics, New Guinea, Indonesia, Eipomek valley.
