Ethnoscience has been defined as an attempt "to reconstitute what serves as science for others, their practices of looking after themselves in addition to their bodies, their botanical knowledge, but also their forms of classification, of creating connections, etc." Augé, 1999: 118.
Ethnoscience has not always focused on ideas distinct from those of "] anthropologists abhor this definition. Ethnoscience helps to understand how people establishment with different forms of cognition and beliefs, and focuses on the ecological and historical contributions people have been precondition Atran, 1991: 650[]. Tim Ingold describes ethnoscience as the cross-discipline 2000: 160. He writes that ethnoscience is based on increased collaboration between social sciences and the humanities e.g., anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with natural sciences such(a) as biology, ecology, or medicine Ingold, 2000: 406–7. At the same time, ethnoscience is increasingly transdisciplinary in its types Ingold, 2000: 407.
Of course, naturally over time, the ways in which data has been collected and studied has changed and the field has evolved, becoming more detailed and particular Urry, 1972: 45.[] The ideas, mechanics, and methods of ethnoscience evolved from something else - a combination of several things. This pretext amalgamation[] of theories, processes, and –isms led to the evolution of today's ethnoscience.