The Cultural Relations of Classification: An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521025737)

Roy Ellen has studied the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than twenty years. He is a major figure in ethnobiology, the branch of anthropology that examines the social and cultural transformation of biological knowledge. The present study looks at the Nuaulu classificatory system of animal knowledge: the relationship between animal words and animal categories, how these categories are constructed, and the language of classification. The author relies on rich and fascinating data to show that all classifications reflect an interaction among culture, cognitive processes, and the material world.

Author: Roy Ellen
ISBN-10: 0521025737
ISBN-13: 9780521025737
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2006
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d