A methodology for ethnoscience: The need for alternative epistemologies

Theoria 1 (2):397-409 (1985)
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In this paper it is assumed a broad conceptualization of Science which allows far looking into common practices which are apparently unstructured forms of knowledge. This result from a concept of culture which is the result of an hierarchization of behavior. In this theoretical framewark the concept of ethnoscience is analysed

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