ethnosciencen.
/ˈɛθnə(ʊ)ˌsʌɪəns/, U.S. /ˈɛθnoʊˌsaɪəns/ Social Sciences.
The branch of knowledge concerned with the different ways the world is perceived and categorized in different cultures.
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the world > people > ethnicities > race > ethnoscience > [noun]
ethnology1787
ethnography1811
race science1873
ethnolinguistics1920
ethnoscience1956
1956 Amer. Anthropologist 58 223 Metaphysics so broadly defined includes notions of space and time, causal principles, and ethnoscience.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating iii. 38 B. N. Colby in an unpublished paper, entitled ‘Eidos, Semantics and Ethnoscience’, has dealt extensively with a number of these approaches to studies of semantic fields.
1975 G. Witherspoon in M. D. Kinkade et al. Ling. & Anthropol. 704 Ethnoscience has focused almost exclusively on cognitive mapping.
2001 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 6 Apr. 32 A renowned authority on Amazonian ethno-science and indigenous people's rights.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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