The Cultural Relations of Classification

An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram

By:

Roy Ellen

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

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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.

Release date Australia

August 12th, 1993

Author

Roy Ellen

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

34 Tables, unspecified; 8 Halftones, unspecified; 14 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

344

Series

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Dimensions

157x236x31

ISBN-13

9780521431149

Product ID

1976218

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