Animal myths and metaphors in South America

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Animal myths and metaphors in South America

edited by Gary Urton

University of Utah Press, c1985

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Includes bibliographies and index

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What similarities and differences do humans see between themselves and animals? Why do people commonly make metaphorical comparisons between human beings or social groups and animals, and to what degree are people’s attitudes and beliefs about animals parallel to or contingent upon their attitudes and beliefs about human beings and human society? This collection of articles considers these issues. The issues are basic in any study of "totemism," or human and animal relationships, and they have been discussed in anthropological literature since the time of Lewis Henry Morgan’s work on Iroquois social organization. The contributors to this anthology have not limited themselves to the notion that clans and moieties are the only sources and objects of metaphorical comparisons between humans and animals. They suggest a shift in perspective that has metaphorical comparisons generated by conceived similarities and differences between animals and particular types of human beings. Some examples of this include macaw fledglings as adolescents; pumas as fully initiated men, and foxes as young married men. With this shift of emphasis, a significantly different analytic focus in the study of human-animal relations is produced.

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Acknowledgments Introduction – Gary Urton My Brother the Parrot – J. Christopher Crocker Animal Symbolism, Totemism and the Structure of Myth – Terence Turner Tapir Avoidance in the Colombian Northwest Amazon – Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff The House of the Swallow-Tailed Kite: Warao Myth and the Art of Thinking in Images – Johannes Wilbert The Lion in the City: Royal Symbols of Transition in Cuzco – R. Tom Zuidema Animal Metaphors and the Life Cycle in an Andean Community – Gary Urton The Metaphoric Process: "From Culture to Nature and Back Again" – Billie Jean Isbell Index

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