Abstract
'Some anthropological perspectives on classification systems are presented here. Such systems have been extensively studied by cognitive anthropologists; the area of work is often referred to as ethnoscience.We summarize work related to three specific domains: color terms, biological classifications, and kinship terminology. Some generalizations that can be drawn from this work involve categories, features, and the structure of classification systems; variations in terminology and system metrics are also discussed.The conclusions and generalizations from this work are relevant to the design and use of classification systems to support information retrieval applications.
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