the study of ideas about the world, nature, and human life that are held by different cultures and do not form part of Western science

The best-known project of cognitive anthropology has been ethnoscience, the study of the bodies of knowledge and theory developed by non-Western societies in such fields as botany or human physiology. 认知人类学最著名的分支是人种志研究，即研究非西方社会在植物学或人类生理学等领域所形成的知识和理论体系。