Entirely Different Kinds of Beast
The Ontological Challenge to Knowledge Integration in Ethnobiology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10927705 |
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| Authors | Dejan Makovec (0000-0002-2117-3264, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 327-353 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of the Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-3931 • E-ISSN: 1552-7441 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00483931231216773 |
| OpenAlex | W4389001814 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Anthropologists of the ontological turn claim that certain entities, processes, and relations are in principle inaccessible to outsiders of specific communities. Philosophers of ethnobiology see a challenge to the integration of scientific and ethnoscientific knowledge of nature in this claim. They propose to negotiate integration within a framework of overlapping ontologies. I explicate the methodology of the ontological turn and claim that it offers a better understanding of knowledge integration than does the philosophers’ framework. Based on two case studies, I argue for a revised notion of knowledge integration that takes scientific change and mutual influence between communities into account
Biology · Epistemology · Ethnobiology · Indigenous · Knowledge engineering · Knowledge integration · Knowledge management · Negotiation · Ontology · Social science · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Anthropology · Computer Science · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society
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