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[Paul B. Garrett]

If you don't insist on a recent source, Charles Frake dealt with this:

Frake, Charles, 1964.  "The Diagnosis of Disease among the Subanun of
Mindanao."  In Dell Hymes (ed.), _Language in Culture and Society_, pp.
193-211.

See esp. p. 197; but glancing over it, it doesn't seem that he proposes any
special term (re your question #1).

Re question #2, if you haven't already consulted it, Chapter 5 ("Cognitive
Anthropology") of William Foley's 1997 textbook _Anthropological
Linguistics: An Introduction_ is a good source for likely references.

Paul


Christian Nelson wrote:

> Hi folks:
> Two related questions I hope I can get help for:
> 1) Is there a specific term for terms that serve both as terms for a
> genre and terms for members of that same genre (e.g., "man" when used to
> refer to both male homo sapiens and all homo sapiens)? (I'm tempted to
> use the term "generic term" for this, and I know others do, but wouldn't
> a generic term just be a term for a genre of things and not also a term
> for things that are members of the genre?)
> 2) Is there any book or article that you'd recommend that discusses the
> processes by which words for a genre of things become (also) words for
> members of that genre and vice versa?
> Thanks,
> Christian Nelson