The Cultural Relations of Classification: An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram: 91 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 91) - Hardcover

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Ellen, Roy

 
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This is an innovative study, which takes our understanding beyond the taxonomic abstraction characteristic of earlier work in the field.

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An innovative study of the Nuaulu classificatory system of animal knowledge. It demonstrates how the classification system reflects an interaction between culture, cognitive processes and the material world.

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