ethnoscience
/ˌɛθnoʊˈsaɪəns/
noun
- The study of how different cultures understand and classify the natural world, including their own systems of knowledge about plants, animals, and the environment.
- Ethnoscience helps us appreciate how indigenous communities use local plants for medicine.
- The researcher's work in ethnoscience documented traditional weather prediction methods.
- By studying ethnoscience, we learn that different cultures have unique ways of organizing biological knowledge.