Journal of Jishou University(Social Sciences) ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (1): 24-28.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1007-4074.2012.01.005

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Local Medicinal Cognition and Ito Classification Feature——Anthropological Investigation Based on SuZhu Village inthe West of Hunan Province

  

  1. (1.Department of Law Politics and History,Tongren Institute,Tongren,Guizhou 554300,China;2.Museum of Ethnology,South ̄Central University for Nationalities,Wuhan,Hunan 430074,China)
  • Online:2012-01-15 Published:2012-03-02

Abstract: Local drug cognitive is not only the practical experience and cognitive system of characterization,characteristics,function and utility of medicinal plants and animals created by ethnic groups in the ecological space which they live in,but also an abstract expression of the concrete object and its performance.Its extension includes drug ecological cognition,naming rules and classification system,etc.Drug ecological cognition,based on the practice,shows the characteristics of the specific science;Drug naming comes from a kind of production practice and the need of daily life,and there are rules;Drug property division has both the universality of traditional folk classification structure,and the particularity of the region,and classification system of taste as the standard is not only the rich connotation of folk taxonomy,and development of classification science of the folk.

Key words: drug awareness, classification feature, Suzhu, anthropology

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