The Cultural Relations of Classification - An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram (Hardcover)

Roy Ellen has studied the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than twenty years. He is a major figure in ethnobiology, the branch of anthropology that examines the social and cultural transformation of biological knowledge. The present study looks at the Nuaulu classificatory system of animal knowledge: the relationship between animal words and animal categories, how these categories are constructed, and the language of classification. The author relies on rich and fascinating data to show that all classifications reflect an interaction among culture, cognitive processes, and the material world.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Release date:	August 1993
First published:	1993
Authors:	Roy Ellen
Dimensions:	236 x 157 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-43114-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Promotions > Women In Power > Books
LSN:	0-521-43114-X
Barcode:	9780521431149

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