Taxonomy, in the present context, is largely an anthropological linguistic interest in categorization, fitting under the umbrella of cognitive anthropology, which highlights additional processes, such as decision making, that need not be linguistic. Many linguists and anthropologists think of taxonomy as mainly the folk classification of plants and animals, but it subsumes more. The enduring aim of taxonomy has been to bring the description and modeling of crosscultural categorization within the reach of replicable procedure over and above techniques based on participant observation, verbal elicitation, and informed analysis, however astute they may be.