Why the Porcupine Is not a Bird
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
9781487520014 (ISBN)
Forth’s detailed discussion of how the Nage people conceptualize their relationship to the animal world covers the naming and classification of animals, their symbolic and practical use, and the ecology of central Flores and its change over the years. His study reveals the empirical basis of Nage classifications, which align surprisingly well with the taxonomies of modern biologists. It also shows how the Nage employ systems of symbolic and utilitarian classification distinct from their general taxonomy. A tremendous source of ethnographic detail, Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is an important contribution to the fields of ethnobiology and cognitive anthropology.
Gregory Forth is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Preface
Note on Orthography
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Investigating Folk Knowledge: A Methodological Prospectus
Chapter 3. Animals, Humans, and Other Mammals
Part 1: Mammals
Chapter 4. Animals of the Village: Domestic and Partly Domestic Mammals
Chapter 5. The Giant Rat of Flores and Other Never Domesticated Mammals
Chapter 6. Symbolic and Utilitarian Dimensions of Mammal Categories: Varieties of Special Purpose Classification
Part 2: Non-mammals
Chapter 7. Birds, or “Creatures that Fly High in the Sky”
Chapter 8. Snakes: The Life-form Nipa
Chapter 9. Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Non-mammalian Miscellany
Chapter 10. Things with Tails but without Backbones: Invertebrates in Nage Folk Zoology
Part 3: Comparisons and Curiosities
Chapter 11. What’s in an Animal Name: Comparative Observations on Animal Nomenclature, Classification, and Symbolism
Chapter 12. When Birds Turn Into Mammals and Mammals into Fish: Nage “Beliefs” about Animal Transformation
Chapter 13. Animal Mysteries and Disappearing Animals
Chapter 14. Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1. Terms for Human and Animal Body Parts
Appendix 2. Growth Stages in Several Wild Animals
Appendix 3. Nage Invertebrate Categories
Appendix 4. Animal Names Used as Personal Names in Central Nage
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.03.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Anthropological Horizons |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 figures, 3 maps |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781487520014 / 9781487520014 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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