Vernacular, as opposed to scientific, naming system

Right & left : essays on dual symbolic classification / edited and with an introduction by Rodney Needham ; foreword by E.E. Evans-Pritchard.

Cognitive foundations of natural history : towards an anthropology of science / Scott Atran.

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Right & left : essays on dual symbolic classification / edited and with an introduction by Rodney Needham ; foreword by E.E. Evans-Pritchard.

Cognitive foundations of natural history : towards an anthropology of science / Scott Atran.