Signifying animals : human meaning in the natural world

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Signifying animals : human meaning in the natural world

edited by Roy Willis

(One world archaeology, 16)

Unwin Hyman, 1990

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Papers from the World Archaeological Congresses, held in Southampton, England, in Sept. 1986

Includes bibliographies and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.

目次

  • The pangolin revisited - a new approach to animal symbolism, Mary Douglas
  • cultural attitudes to birds and animals in folklore, Jawarharlal Handoo
  • animal language in the Garden of Eden - folktale elements in Genesis, G.Koolemans Beynen
  • a semantic analysis of the symbolism of Toba mythical animals, Pablo G.Wright
  • back to the future - trophy arrays as mental maps in the Wopkaimin's culture of place, David C.Hyndman
  • sheep bone as a sign of human descent - tibial symbolism among the mongols, Slawoj Szynkiewicz
  • ecological community and species attributes in Yolngu religious symbolism, Ian Keen
  • Pictish animal symbols, Anthony Jackson
  • the idea of fish - land and sea in the Icelandic world-view, Gisli Palsson
  • animals in Hopi duality, Mark Thomas Bahti
  • eat and be eaten - animals in U'wa (Tunebo) oral tradition, Ann Osborn
  • Tezcatlipoca - jaguar metaphors and the Aztec mirror of nature, Nicholas J.Saunders
  • Nanook, super-male - the polar bear in the imaginary space and social time of the Inuit of the canadian Arctic, Bernard Saladin d'Anglure
  • antelope as self-image among the Uduk, Wendy James
  • the track of the python - a West African origin story, Eugenia Shanklin
  • Nigerian cultural attitudes to the dog, J.Olowo Ojoade
  • rodeo horses - the wild and the tame, Elizabeth A.Lawrence
  • the beast without - the moa as a colonial frontier myth in New Zealand, Atholl Anderson
  • the meaning of the snake, Roy Willis.

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