Signifying Animals : Human Meaning in the Natural World

by: Willis, R.

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 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

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum U.S.A., Fascicule 31 : The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Fascicule 6 : Etruscan Impasto and Bucchero

by: De Puma, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780892362936 / 978-0-89236-293-6
• ISBN-03: 0892362936 / 0-89236-293-6
• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, 1996

Price: 170,00 EURO

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Signifying Animals : Human Meaning in the Natural World

by: Willis, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780415095556 / 978-0-415-09555-6
• ISBN-03: 0415095557 / 0-415-09555-7
• Routledge, London, 1994

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Die Munzen der Griechen in Italien und Sizilien : die Bestande des Munzkabinetts

by: Forschner, G. Malinka, Th.

• ISBN-13: 9783872800374 / 978-3-87280-037-4
• ISBN-03: 387280037X / 3-87280-037-X
• Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, 1986

Price: 61,63 EURO

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Alexandria : city of memory

by: Hagg, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780300104158 / 978-0-300-10415-8
• ISBN-03: 0300104154 / 0-300-10415-4
• Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004

Price: 59,00 EURO

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The Byzantine tradition after the fall of Constantinople

by: Yiannias, J.J.

• ISBN-13: 9780813913292
• ISBN-03: 0813913292
• University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1991

Die Akropolis von Athen im Hellenismus und in der romischen Kaiserzeit : Internationales Kolloquium vom 16. bis 17. Juni 2006 in Bonn

by: Krumeich, R. Witschel, Chr.

• ISBN-13: 9783895007132 / 978-3-89500-713-2
• ISBN-03: 3895007137 / 3-89500-713-7
• Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2011

Beazley Addenda: Additional references to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena. Second Edition

by: Burn, L. Glynn, R. Carpenter, Th.H.

• ISBN-13: 9780197260692 / 978-0-19-726069-2
• ISBN-03: 0197260691 / 0-19-726069-1
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989

Ovid and Augustus: A political reading of Ovid's erotic poems

by: Davis, P.J.

• ISBN-13: 9780715635599
• ISBN-03: 071563559X
• Duckworth, London, 2006