<div>Wish I could be there -- looks like an interesting discussion topic.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a recently published book (OUP, 2010) on what seems to be a new sub-domain of this area, namely Ethno-ornithology:</div>
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<span class="elw" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 170); margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; "><em>'Birds of the Great Andamanese</em>'<br>Satish Pande and Anvita Abbi</span></h2></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote">There is some information on the book here: <a href="http://www.hrelp.org/events/elw2011/booklaunch.html">http://www.hrelp.org/events/elw2011/booklaunch.html</a></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">See also web links at the bottom of this page.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Best,</div><div class="gmail_quote">Peter</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 May 2011 03:31, Ruth Singer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rsinger@unimelb.edu.au">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Announcement<br>
<br>
Linguistics in the Pub (LIP) June 2011<br>
Organised by RNLD <a href="http://www.rnld.org" target="_blank">http://www.rnld.org</a><br>
<br>
Topic: Ethnobiology in Language Documentation<br>
Discussion led by Gwen Hyslop, Research Centre for Linguistic<br>
Typology, La Trobe University<br>
<br>
Ethnobiology, as a discipline, is generally concerned with the set of<br>
relationships that a given society has with its plants and animals. As<br>
speakers of endangered languages lose their traditional connections<br>
with their surroundings, we also very quickly lose the ethnobotanical<br>
knowledge that was represented in that language. As linguists engaged<br>
in language documentation, often with communities who have vastly<br>
different ethnobiological knowledge and practices than we have, we are<br>
in a unique position to document ethnobiology as part of language<br>
documentation. The question, though, is how we can do this as<br>
linguists?<br>
<br>
Background readings<br>
Berlin, Brent. 1992. Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of<br>
Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional<br>
Societies.Princeton: Princeton University Press.<br>
<br>
Bright, Jane, and William Bright. 1965. Semantic structures in<br>
Northwestern California and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. American<br>
Anthropologist 67:249-58. (Special issue: E.A. Hammel, ed., Formal<br>
Semantic Analysis).<br>
<br>
Brown, C. H. 1984. Language and Living Things: Uniformities in Folk<br>
Classification and Naming.<br>
<br>
Hunn, Eugene, and David French. 1984. Alternative to taxonomic<br>
hierarchy: the Sahaptin case. Journal of Ethnobiology4:73-92. Also<br>
in Case Studies in Ethnobotany, Paul E. Minnis (ed.), pp. 118-139.<br>
<br>
Rea, Amadeo M. 1998. Folk Mammology of the Northern Pimans.<br>
University of Arizona Press, Tucson.<br>
<br>
Si, Aung. 2011. Biology in Language Documentation. The Australia<br>
National University, ms.<br>
<br>
Turner, Nancy. 2000. General Plant Categories in Thompson<br>
(Nlaka'pamux) and Lillooet (Stl'atrimx), Two Interior Salish Languages<br>
of British Columbia. In Case Studies in Ethnobotany, Paul E. Minnis<br>
(ed.), pp. 88-115.<br>
<br>
Selected readings will be made available through the Events page of<br>
the RNLD website<br>
<br>
Date: Tuesday 14th June<br>
Time: 7:00 pm<br>
Venue: Upstairs room, Prince Alfred Hotel,<br>
191 Grattan St, Carlton<br>
(corner of Bouverie St)<br>
ph (03) 9347-3033<br>
<br>
Food and drinks available at the venue.<br>
<br>
Contact Ruth Singer if you have any questions <a href="mailto:rsinger@unimelb.edu.au">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au</a><br>
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--<br>
Ruth Singer<br>
ARC Research Fellow<br>
Linguistics Program<br>
School of Languages and Linguistics<br>
Faculty of Arts<br>
University of Melbourne 3010<br>
<a href="http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/singer/" target="_blank">http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/singer/</a><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Prof Peter K. Austin<br>Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics<br>Department of Linguistics, SOAS<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square<br>London WC1H 0XG<br>United Kingdom<br>
<br>web: <a href="http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa">http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa</a><br>
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