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Ento-Linguistic Areas

The table below lists some

Ento-Linguistic Domains⁠

where language use can be variously unclear, ambiguous, assumptive, or inappropriate.

Please feel free to add/edit rows and cells, this is just trying to sketch out a few different areas.

Ento-Linguistic Domains

Ento-Linguistic Domains

Name

Summary

Notes & Resources

Unit of individuality

What is an “ant” — the nestmate, the colony, or something else?

Is the "ant" the nestmate? the colony?

Are ants social, eusocial, colonial, organismal, super-organismal, holo-organismal (e.g. symbionts, agriculture).

What are the causes & consequences of “colony”? Other terms for this level of analysis? Just “ant” (as organism)?

Behavior and Identity

How do we describe what ants do, and what they are because of what they do?

is the ant carrying a seed "foraging", and does that make it "a forager"? What if it is "observed in the foraging area" but not carrying a seed?

Deborah Gordon has many relevant works here.

Helen Longino on scientific pluralism & consequences of definitions of behavior in e.g. rodents.

Power & Labor

What terms such as “caste”, “queen”, “worker”, “slave”, “parasite” structure the discourse around colony anatomy and physiology?

Sex & Reproduction

What are the causes and consequences of how people deploy their sex/gender concepts while Ento-sensemaking?

“Sex determination” and “Sex differentiation” are the commonly-used terms

Example review paper using these concepts: “Double nexus—Doublesex is the connecting element in sex determination”

https://academic.oup.com/bfg/article/14/6/396/193998

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Kin

What is the kin, social, family, population structure of ants?

How are different kinds of relatedness considered (genetic, epigenetic, chemical, spatial), and how is relatedness deployed in

Ento-Linguistic Domains

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and EcoEvoDevo?

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https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo28583407.html

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Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations, Edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway

Economics

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