Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropologyseries number 91 the cultural relations of classification

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An innovative study of the Nuaulu classificatory system of animal knowledge. It demonstrates how the classification system reflects an interaction between culture, cognitive processes, and the material world.



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 analysis of Nuaulu classification of animal knowledge: the relationship between animal words and animal categories; the construction of different categories and their relationship to one another, and the actual language of classification. The classifications are shown to be context-bound and socially embedded, of practical importance to their users, and to reflect an interaction between culture, cognitive processes and the material world. This is an innovative study, which takes our understanding beyond the taxonomic abstraction characteristic of earlier work in the field.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 12 augustus 1993

Aantal pagina's: 344

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Roy Ellen

Tweede Auteur: Roy Ellen

Co Auteur: Ellen Roy

Hoofdredacteur: Meyer Fortes

Tweede Redacteur: Edmund Leach

Co Redacteur: Jack Goody

Hoofduitgeverij: Cambridge University Press

Originele titel: The Cultural Relations of Classification

Editie: New title

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 157 mm

Product hoogte: 31 mm

Product lengte: 236 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 157 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 31 mm

Verpakking lengte: 236 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 681 g

EAN: 9780521431149

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