Signifying animals : human meaning in the natural world
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Signifying animals : human meaning in the natural world
(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
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Description
A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.
Table of Contents
- 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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