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Ideas of Roy Ellen, by Text
[British, fl. 2006, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kent at Canterbury.]
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1996
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Anthropological Studies of Classification
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p.33
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p.33
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Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not
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p.33
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p.33
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10495
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Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories
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p.35
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p.35
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10497
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In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules
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p.36
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p.36
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10498
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Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions
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2006
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Categories, Classification, Cogn. Anthropology
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I
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p.4
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Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words
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