Ethnobiology has become increasingly concerned with applied and normative questions about biocultural diversity and the livelihoods of local communities. While this development has created new opportunities for connecting ethnobiological research with ecological and social sciences, it also raises questions about the role of cognitive perspectives in current ethnobiology. In fact, there are clear signs of institutional separation as research on folkbiological cognition has increasingly found its home in the cognitive science community, weakening its ties to institutionalized ethnobiology. Rather than accepting this separation as inevitable disciplinary specialization, this short perspective article argues for a systemic perspective that addresses mutual influences and causal entanglement of cognitive and non-cognitive factors in socio-ecological dynamics. Such an integrative perspective requires a new conversation about cognition in ethnobiology beyond traditional polarization around issues of cognitive universals and cultural relativity.

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认知仍在民族生物学中起作用吗？

民族生物学已越来越关注有关生物文化多样性和当地社区生计的应用和规范性问题。尽管这种发展为将民族生物学研究与生态科学和社会科学联系在一起创造了新的机会，但也提出了关于认知观点在当前民族生物学中的作用的疑问。实际上，随着对民间生物学认知的研究越来越多地出现在认知科学界，削弱了其与制度化民族生物学的联系，有明显的制度分离迹象。与其将这种分离视为不可避免的学科专业，这篇简短的观点文章提出了一种系统的观点，该观点解决了社会生态动力学中认知和非认知因素的相互影响和因果纠缠。这种整合的观点要求围绕传统知识的两极分化，围绕认知普遍性和文化相对性的问题，进行有关民族生物学认知的新话题。