Mode of Subsistence and Folk Biological Taxonomy [and Comments and Reply]
Current AnthropologyPublished 1 February 1985
Cecil H. Brown, E. N. Anderson, Ralph Bulmer, Paul Drechsel, Roy Ellen, Terence E. Hays
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The larger taxonomies of farmers are related to a diversity of ecotypes created by subsistence farming that supports a broadened range of wild organisms, intensive utilization of wild plants and animals as "famine foods" when crops fail, and the greater health risks of farmers, which motivate exceptional interest in organisms of medicinal value.
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