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Signifying Animals : Human Meaning in the Natural World

by: Willis, R.

Price: 49,00 EURO

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Category: Theoretical Archaeology
Code: 8658
ISBN-13: 9780415095556 / 978-0-415-09555-6
ISBN-10: 0415095557 / 0-415-09555-7
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Place: London
Binding: Paper
Pages: 258
Book Condition: New
Comments: One World Archaeology 16 / First Published 1990

 Signifying animals : human meaning in the natural world

Author:Roy Willis (Editor)

Summary:A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.

ontents:
Introduction 1 The pangolin revisited: a new approach to animal symbolisim 2 Cultural attitudes to birds and animals in folklore 3 Animal language in the Garden of Eden: folktale elements in Genesis 4 A semantic analysis of the symbolism of Toba mythical animals 5 Back to the future: trophy arrays as mental maps in the Wopkaimin?s culture of Place 6 Sheep bone as a sign of human descent: tibial symbolism among the Mongols 7 Ecological community and species attributes in Yolngu religious symbolism 8 Pictish animal symbols 9 The idea of fish: land and sea in the Icelandic world-view 10 Animals in Hopi duality 11 Eat and be eaten: animals in U?wa (Tunebo) oral tradition 12 Tezcatlipoca: jaguar metaphors and the Aztec mirror of nature 13 Nanook, super-male: the polar bear in the imaginary space and social time of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic 14 Antelope as self-image among the Uduk 15 The track of the python: a West African origin story 16 Nigerian cultural attitudes to the dog 17 Rodeo horses: the wild and the tame 18 The beast without: the moa as a colonial frontier myth in New Zealand 19 The meaning of the snake

 
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