ethnosciencenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈeθ.noʊˌsaɪ.əns//ˌeθ.noʊˈsaɪ.əns/the study of ideas about the world, nature, and human life that are held by different cultures and do not form part of Western science :
The best-known project of cognitive anthropology has been ethnoscience, the study of the bodies of knowledge and theory developed by non-Western societies in such fields as botany or human physiology.