Signifying Animals - Human Meaning in the Natural World

Informationen zum Autor Roy Willis, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. Klappentext A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation. Zusammenfassung A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 The pangolin revisited: a new approach to animal symbolisim 2 Cultural attitudes to birds and animals in folklore 3 Animal language in the Garden of Eden: folktale elements in Genesis 4 A semantic analysis of the symbolism of Toba mythical animals 5 Back to the future: trophy arrays as mental maps in the Wopkaimin’s culture of Place 6 Sheep bone as a sign of human descent: tibial symbolism among the Mongols 7 Ecological community and species attributes in Yolngu religious symbolism 8 Pictish animal symbols 9 The idea of fish: land and sea in the Icelandic world-view 10 Animals in Hopi duality 11 Eat and be eaten: animals in U’wa (Tunebo) oral tradition 12 Tezcatlipoca: jaguar metaphors and the Aztec mirror of nature 13 Nanook, super-male: the polar bear in the imaginary space and social time of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic 14 Antelope as self-image among the Uduk 15 The track of the python: a West African origin story 16 Nigerian cultural attitudes to the dog 17 Rodeo horses: the wild and the tame 18 The beast without: the moa as a colonial frontier myth in New Zealand 19 The meaning of the snake

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• Authors: Roy Willis, Willis Roy
• Assisted by: Roy Willis (Editor), Willis Roy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.1994
• EAN: 9780415095556
• ISBN: 978-0-415-09555-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: One World Archaeology; New Testament Readings; One World Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, ART / History / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Animals & society, Social impact of environmental issues, Animals and society