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lindaaburnett.bsky.social
I have the pleasure to collaborate with @hannahod.bsky.social on Lars Montin's colonial travel to Sapmi in 1749. Our first article is now available in the History of Anthropology Review (part of section ed by Uchôa, Müller-Wille & Mercer, on Histories of Ethnoscience: histanthro.org/notes/traces...
Special Focus: Histories of Ethnoscience
HAR editors are pleased to bring you this Special Focus Section, guest edited by Raphael Uchôa, Staffan Müller-Wille and Harriet Mercer. The pieces in this collection will be published on a rolling…
histanthro.org
March 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ethnopoetics.bsky.social
Today at SALSA XXX, I give my talk on Keith Basso, Western Apache Language and Culture, and the fate of ethnoscience
January 17, 2026 at 1:34 PM
anthrodiva.bsky.social
And to be clear, I'm absolutely bit bothered about being misgendered. As an anthropologist, I'm fascinated by it! My advisor did a lot of cognitive ethnoscience stuff with words and categories. His book:

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Amazon.com: Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension From the Ethnoscience Tradition (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics): 9780195094077: Kronenfeld, David: Books
Amazon.com: Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers: Semantic Extension From the Ethnoscience Tradition (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics): 9780195094077: Kronenfeld, David: Books
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July 31, 2024 at 1:39 PM
sabinaleonelli.bsky.social
Just out: “Globalising Plant Knowledge Beyond Bioprospecting” (collection on Ethnoscience hosted by History of Anthropology Review). 1st of a series of papers on extractive epistemologies which my next monograph will treat in detail - comments warmly welcome!

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Globalizing plant knowledge beyond bioprospecting?
Cassava plant, Ghana. Photo by Sabina Leonelli. At 8 am on the first of September 2023, I find myself in Fumesua, a small town close to Kumasi, the second largest Ghanian city and the historical se…
histanthro.org
November 25, 2024 at 11:37 AM
tweettropiques.bsky.social
We soon may know the answer to an important philosophical and taxonomic dilemma going back at least to the heyday of Ward Goodenough's #ethnoscience movement...

#ethnobiology #hotdogs #sandwiches
jsthrill.modphi.com WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · Aug 15
Experimental philosophy
timothy_thelen 7h Follow Them - You can't throw sandwiches at ICE Agents. Grabs a hot dog. "I guess we'll finally answer the old question."
August 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
poljiology.bsky.social
Dr. Chuckie A. Calsado quotes Fanon (1991) during today's webinar on Ethnoscience: Decolonizing Bioethics Education organized by KaSaMa Teachers Community #KaSaMaTeachersCommunity #KTCwebinars2025
Screenshot of a slide from Dr. Chuckie A. Calsado's webinar on Ethnoscience: Decolonizing Bioethics Education, quoting Fanon (1991): "When the colonized are forced to speak the language of the colonizer, they are then also forced to accept their reality -- evil and sin are identified with the colonized and purity and righteousness with the colonizer"
October 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM
ethnopoetics.bsky.social
Chomsky certainly had an influence in linguistic anthropology, you can see that in Silverstein's shifers paper or Durbin's attempt to wed ethnoscience with transformational grammar, but much linguistic anthropology was a reaction against Chomsky, Basso's metaphor paper
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
acequiero.bsky.social
One of the most valuable lessons I have learned over five seasons of The Acequia Institute Next Gen Acequia Farmer internship program is to never underestimate the capacity of youth to be responsive to a challenging curriculum based on Indigenous ethnoscience and agroecology.
April 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ethnopoetics.bsky.social
If you happen to be in Austin Friday or Saturday, the thirtieth iteration of the Symposium About Language and Society--Austin (SALSA XXX) will be taking place. Luke Fleming will give the Sherzer keynote, and I'll give a little talk about Keith Basso and ethnoscience

sites.utexas.edu/salsa/salsa-...
https://sites.utexas.edu/salsa/salsa-20…
January 13, 2026 at 11:54 AM
sundene.bsky.social
Some from my birth year:

Break room
Central Processing Unit
cytomembrane
empath
ethnoscience

Interesting!
July 31, 2026 at 2:19 PM
buildsoil.bsky.social
Examples of Upcoming Episodes Include:

- A systems science perspective on major climate events, like fires and floods, examined through spatial justice, ethnoscience, and mutual aid to give listeners insights into sustainable, collaborative responses.
November 7, 2024 at 1:54 AM
ethnopoetics.bsky.social
Murray makes the point that just because you studied with someone doesn't mean you accept their premises, ethnoscience at Yale a good example, Conklin Goodenough & Lounsbury all studied with Murdock, but all were committed to an inductive approach that was the opposite of Murdock
May 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
ethnopoetics.bsky.social
"'Ethnoscience' like 'fuck' is an unmentionable; a deceased ancestor's name that can no longer be mentioned in polite company"--akw
January 18, 2026 at 12:01 AM
sillymickel.bsky.social
*EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY* CH 5 , p. 26

🧵Click panel below for Thread, complete book

or, for paperback: www.amazon.com/Experience-D...

🧵👇 💡📚💙 #ED 🐉 #ExperienceIsDivinity 🐉 #EDCH5 📖5️⃣ #TruthWarriors ❕ #psychology ☮️ #metaphysics ☯️ #transpersonal 🪽 #primal ☮️ #experiential 🐉 #RainbowWarriors 🦋
EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY Page 26 …science as being merely one more part of a culture and with no more claim to validity than any other view. Levels of Usefulness, Paradigm Comparisons It seems to me that science has a greater, though not ultimate, claim to validity to the extent it includes and integrates more experiential “facts” in its reality constructions ... the degree of scientific validity — from good ethnoscience to bad ethnoscience — being the number of experiential facts it includes and integrates. Cultural constructions can therefore be compared, although such comparisons do not render any one of them, including science, Ultimate Truth, only “righter” in relation to the others, that is to say, more correct. What follows is that whoever accepts the “larger,” more encompassing, more inclusive perspective is necessarily the one who has more “power” ultimately, in that this one’s view allows for more accurate predictive and remedial power. That is why, eventually if not immediately, more inclusive paradigms and their proponents attain dominance.
June 4, 2026 at 2:59 AM
nuclearanthro.bsky.social
These distinctions are lies we tell ourselves and others.

ALL SCIENCE IS ETHNOSCIENCE!

*cackles in anthropologist*
February 29, 2024 at 4:22 PM
graceliv.bsky.social
For more on Western scientists' use of indigenous knowledge of botany and natural sciences

See the scholars in this working group: histanthro.org/notes/scienc...
@edwinrose.bsky.social
Science and Its Others: Histories of Ethnoscience
HAR editors are pleased to bring you this Special Focus Section, guest edited by Raphael Uchôa, Staffan Müller-Wille and Harriet Mercer. The pieces in this collection will be published on a rolling…
histanthro.org
February 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
anthrotools.bsky.social
Cardenas, T., et al. (2025). Divergent knowledge and perceptions of insects by organic and non-organic farming in the Ecuadorian Andes. Agriculture and Human Values. #AnthroTools #ethnoscience #quantethnography

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June 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
anthrotools.bsky.social
Placek, C. D., et al. (2025). Reconstructing Cross-Cultural Meanings of Addiction Among Women from Three Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(7), 1064. www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/22... #AnthroTools #ethnoscience #quantethnography
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July 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
anthrotools.bsky.social
Purzycki, B. G. (in press). Toward a cultural immunology of religious systems. Religion, Brain & Behavior.
#AnthroTools #quantethnography #ethnoscience

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Toward a cultural immunology of religious systems
Published in Religion, Brain & Behavior (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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August 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
sillymickel.bsky.social
*EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY* M. Adzema. CH 5 , p 26

🧵Click panel below for Thread, complete book

or, for paperback: www.amazon.com/Experience-D...

🧵👇 💡📚💙 #ED 🐉 #ExperienceIsDivinity 🐉 #EDCH5 📖5️⃣ #TruthWarriors ❕ #psychology ☮️ #metaphysics ☯️ #transpersonal 🪽 #primal ☮️ #experiential 🐉 #RainbowWarriors 🦋
EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY Page 26 …science as being merely one more part of a culture and with no more claim to validity than any other view. Levels of Usefulness, Paradigm Comparisons It seems to me that science has a greater, though not ultimate, claim to validity to the extent it includes and integrates more experiential “facts” in its reality constructions ... the degree of scientific validity — from good ethnoscience to bad ethnoscience — being the number of experiential facts it includes and integrates. Cultural constructions can therefore be compared, although such comparisons do not render any one of them, including science, Ultimate Truth, only “righter” in relation to the others, that is to say, more correct. What follows is that whoever accepts the “larger,” more encompassing, more inclusive perspective is necessarily the one who has more “power” ultimately, in that this one’s view allows for more accurate predictive and remedial power. That is why, eventually if not immediately, more inclusive paradigms and their proponents attain dominance.
June 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
knzw783.bsky.social
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🔓 Hunaepi, H., Citrawathi, D. M., & Katili, A. S. (2026). Beyond technology acceptance: Rethinking the role of epistemic curiosity in digital literacy. International Journal of Ethnoscience and Technology in Education, 3(2), 131–144. doi.org/10.33394/ije...
Beyond Technology Acceptance: Rethinking the Role of Epistemic Curiosity in Digital Literacy | International Journal of Ethnoscience and Technology in Education
This commentary reconsiders the relationship between epistemic curiosity and digital literacy by examining how curiosity, technology perceptions, and digital engagement may contribute to capability…
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September 21, 2026 at 11:26 AM
buildsoil.bsky.social
Examples of Upcoming Episodes Include:

- A systems science perspective on major climate events, like fires and floods, examined through spatial justice, ethnoscience, and mutual aid to give listeners insights into sustainable, collaborative responses.
April 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
buildsoil.bsky.social
Each episode dives into the roots of resilience, justice, and community, exploring the role of diverse knowledge systems—from ethnoscience and cultural ways of knowing to ecological and restorative justice practices.
April 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
longtail-news.bsky.social
Feed: "Anthroholic"
By: Teena Yadav on Monday, January 19, 2026
Ward Hunt Goodenough
Ward Hunt Goodenough (1919–2013) was a distinguished American cultural anthropologist, best known for his pioneering contributions to cognitive anthropology, kinship theory, and ethnoscience.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:46 AM
schrisomalis.bsky.social
I know the piece feels old-fashioned now, with its talk of emics and etics, typology, and the ethnoscience tradition. It's that... and it's so much more. So ambitious, grounded in embodied cognition and practice before those were commonplace.
November 8, 2024 at 8:34 PM