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Ethnobiology is concerned with the social and cultural transformation of biological knowledge. Roy Ellen, who has worked among the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than twenty years, argues here that ethnobiology is a key theoretical area of anthropological enquiry, because it relies on accessible ethnography to explain the interrelationship between collective representations and cognitive processes. He demonstrates this through a detailed analysis of Nuaulu classification of animal knowledge: the relationship between animal words and animal categories; the construction of different categories and their relationship to one another, and the actual language of classification. The classifications are shown to be context-bound and socially embedded, of practical importance to their users, and to reflect an interaction between culture, cognitive processes and the material world. This is an innovative study, which takes our understanding beyond the taxonomic abstraction characteristic of earlier work in the field.

Folk classification --- Nuaulu (Indonesian people) --- Classification primitive --- Ethnozoology --- Nuaulu (Peuple d'Indonésie) --- Ethnozoologie --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Classification, Primitive --- Primitive classification --- Classification --- Ethnoscience --- Patakai (Indonesian people) --- Ethnology --- Ethnozoology.

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The deep structure of symbolism in religious and ritual activities has hitherto mostly been studied from perspectives deriving from classical and contemporary Western thought, which values symmetry, non-contradiction, equality of terms and the rationality of linear discourse and classification systems have therefore come to be defined in binary terms (right/left, male/female, black/white). In this book, Serge Tcherkezoff presents a new perspective on the study of ritual classification. On the basis of a detailed ethnography of the rituals of the Nyamwezi of Tanzania, Tcherkezoff argues for an analysis which recognised contradictions and asymmetry within ritual systems. Following Dumont, he shows that societies are characterised by a hierarchal structure of values, in which each individual element has a meaning only through its position within the whole, thereby replacing the rigid classical structuralist dichotomy with a rich multidimensional approach.

Nyamwezi (African people) --- Left and right (Symbolism) --- Folk classification. --- Duality (Logic) --- Logic --- Classification, Primitive --- Primitive classification --- Classification --- Ethnoscience --- Right and left (Symbolism) --- Symbolism --- Banyamwezi (African people) --- Nyamwezi --- Wanyamwezi (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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Left and right (Symbolism) --- Folk classification --- Gauche et droite (Symbolisme) --- Classification primitive --- #SBIB:39A3 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Right and left (Symbolism) --- Symbolism --- Classification, Primitive --- Primitive classification --- Classification --- Ethnoscience --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Folk classification. --- Left and right (Symbolism). --- Political sociology --- Semiotics

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A founder of and leading thinker in the field of modern ethnobiology looks at the widespread regularities in the classification and naming of plants and animals among peoples of traditional, nonliterate societies--regularities that persist across local environments, cultures, societies, and languages. Brent Berlin maintains that these patterns can best be explained by the similarity of human beings' largely unconscious appreciation of the natural affinities among groupings of plants and animals: people recognize and name a grouping of organisms quite independently of its actual or potential usefulness or symbolic significance in human society. Berlin's claims challenge those anthropologists who see reality as a "set of culturally constructed, often unique and idiosyncratic images, little constrained by the parameters of an outside world." Part One of this wide-ranging work focuses primarily on the structure of ethnobiological classification inferred from an analysis of descriptions of individual systems. Part Two focuses on the underlying processes involved in the functioning and evolution of ethnobiological systems in general.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Botanique et ethnologie --- Ethnobotanique --- Ethnozoologie --- Etnobotanie --- Etnozoologie --- Indigenous peoples -- Ethnobotany --- Indigenous peoples -- Ethnozoology --- Savoirs botaniques traditionnels --- Savoirs zoologiques traditionnels --- Zoologie et ethnologie --- Folk classification --- Ethnobotany. --- Ethnozoology. --- Classification, Primitive --- Primitive classification --- Classification --- Ethnoscience --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnobiology --- Plants --- Human-plant relationships --- Animals --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Ethnobotany --- Ethnozoology --- Cross-cultural studies --- Classification [Primitive ] --- Folk classification - Cross-cultural studies. --- Folk classification - Cross-cultural studies --- Classification primitive --- Études transculturelles

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397 <594> --- 299.594 --- Ethnology --- -Folk classification --- Symbolism --- Representation, Symbolic --- Symbolic representation --- Mythology --- Emblems --- Signs and symbols --- Classification, Primitive --- Primitive classification --- Classification --- Ethnoscience --- 299.594 Indonesische godsdiensten --- Indonesische godsdiensten --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- 397 <594> Primitieve volkeren. Nomaden. Rassen. Tribus: gewoontes. Gebruiken--Indonesië --- Primitieve volkeren. Nomaden. Rassen. Tribus: gewoontes. Gebruiken--Indonesië --- Schulte Nordholt, H. G. --- Nordholt, H. G. Schulte --- Schulte Nordholt, Hendrik --- Schulte Nordholt, H. --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Anthropology. --- Symbolism. --- Folk classification. --- Schulte Nordholt, Herman Gerrit, --- Folk classification --- Ethnology. --- Indonesia. --- Dutch East Indies --- Endonèsie --- Indanezii͡ --- Indoneshia --- Indoneshia Kyōwakoku --- Indonesi --- Indonesya --- Indonezia --- Indonezii͡ --- Indonezija --- İndoneziya --- İndoneziya Respublikası --- Indūnīsīy --- Induonezėj --- Jumhūrīyah Indūnīsīy --- PDRI --- Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia --- R.I. --- Republic of Indonesia --- Republic of the United States of Indonesia --- Republica d'Indonesia --- Republiek van Indonesi --- Republik Indonesia --- Republik Indonesia Serikat --- Republika Indonezii͡ --- Republika Indonezija --- Rėspublika Indanezii͡ --- RI --- United States of Indonesia --- Yinni --- Schulte Nordholt, Herman Gerrit --- indonesia --- God --- Javanese people --- Mbati language --- Netherlands --- Witchcraft