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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Here at the Peabody Museum, we are currently creating entirely new exhibits for the complete renovation of the museum. As part of this we are having non-traditional scientists
create “other stories” that provide alternative interpretations, names, etc. for some of our exhibited material. Paul’s excellent thesis on the subject is timely, and truly fascinating. Well done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Callomon,Paul<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 28, 2022 8:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gali Beiner <gali.beiner@mail.huji.ac.il>; Erin Cashion <ecashion@ohiohistory.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> NHCOLL-new <Nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Common names<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cultures that do not primarily use the alphabet in everyday life, such as China, Japan, Thailand, India and many others, usually have vernacular taxonomies that far predate
the Linnean system. Adopting Western rules in science was part of the Victorian process of becoming “modern” nation states, but at local level the older words and meanings live on. In some cases they reflect a more detailed knowledge of the ecology and morphology
of organisms than that shared in the “scientific” literature, but they fail as a means of reliably defining entities as they are usually too local and situational to be reproducible.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A fascinating 1954 paper related how one researcher took a picture of one of Japan’s most common spiders (the Jigumo, or Ground Spider, familiar to Kabuki fans) and showed
it to folks in villages from one end of the land to the other, asking “What’s this?” He tallied exactly 100 discrete vernacular names for the same organism.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I showed Nagao’s later map of the names (and talked about vernacular names in some depth) in this work:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><a href="mailto:prc44@drexel.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">prc44@drexel.edu</span></a> Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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