The Cultural Relations of Classification: An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram
(Book #91 in the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series)
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Ethnobiology is concerned with the social and cultural transformation of biological knowledge. Roy Ellen, who has worked among the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than twenty years, argues here that ethnobiology is a key theoretical area of anthropological enquiry, because it relies on accessible ethnography to explain the interrelationship between collective representations and cognitive processes. He demonstrates this through a detailed...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521025737
ISBN13:9780521025737
Release Date:April 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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