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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 January 2010
      12 August 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511470530
      9780521431149
      9780521025737
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470530
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.681kg, 344 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.518kg, 344 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cognitive Psychology, Anthropology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (91)
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    Subjects:
    Life Sciences, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cognitive Psychology, Anthropology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (91)
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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.

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