The Cultural Relations of Classification: An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram: 91 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 91)

Ellen, Roy

ISBN 10: 052143114X / ISBN 13: 9780521431149

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1993

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This is an innovative study, which takes our understanding beyond the taxonomic abstraction characteristic of earlier work in the field. Series Editor(s): Fortes, Meyer; Leach, Edmund; Goody, Jack; Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Num Pages: 344 pages, 22 b/w illus. 34 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JHMC; PSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 681. . 1993. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cultural Relations of Classification: An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram: 91 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 91)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052143114X
• ISBN 13: 9780521431149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.