Why the porcupine is not a bird : explorations in the folk zoology of an eastern Indonesian people /
Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge of animals among the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia. Gregory Forth sheds light on the ongoing anthropological debate surrounding the categorization of animals in small-scale non-Western societies. Forth's detai...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Investigating folk knowledge : a methodological prospectus -- Animals, humans, and other mammals -- Animals of the village : domestic and partly domestic mammals -- The giant rat of Flores and other never domesticated mammals -- Symbolic and utilitarian dimensions of mammal categories : varieties of special-purpose classification -- Birds, or "Creatures that fly high in the sky" -- Snakes : the life-form Nipa -- Neither fish nor fowl : a non-mammalian miscellany -- Things with tails but without backbones : invertebrates in Nage folk zoology -- What's in an animal name : comparative observations on animal nomenclature, classification, and symbolism -- When birds turn into mammals and mammals into fish : Nage "beliefs" about animal transformation -- Animal mysteries and disappearing animals -- Concluding remarks. | |
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