Signifying animals
Subtitle: human meaning in the natural world
By: edited by Roy Willis
Contributors: Taylor & Francis
Series: One world archaeology -- 16; One world archaeology -- 16.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [ressource électronique] :
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780203169353
Subjects: Hunting and gathering societies; Animals; Folklore; Symbolic aspects
Notes: Publ. à l'origine : London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1990.

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Table of contents: title: 1. The pangolin revisited : a new approach to animal symbolisim / Mary Douglas; title: 2. Cultural attitudes to birds and animals in folklore / Jawarharlal Handoo; title: 3. Animal language in the Garden of Eden : folktale elements in Genesis / G. Koolemans Beynen; title: 4. A semantic analysis of the symbolism of Toba mythical animals / Pablo G. Wright; title: 5. Back to the future : trophy arrays as mental maps in the Wopkaimin's culture of place / David C.Hyndman; title: 6. Sheep bone as a sign of human descent : tibial symbolism among the Mongols / Slawoj Szynkiewicz; title: 7. Ecological community and species attributes in Yolngu religious symbolism / Ian Keen; title: 8. Pictish animal symbols / Anthony Jackson; title: 9. The idea of fish : land and sea in the Icelandic world-view / Gs̕li Pl̀sson; title: 10. Animals in Hopi duality / Mark Tomas Bahti; title: 11. Eat and be eaten : animals in U'wa (Tunebo) oral tradition / Ann Osborn; title: 12. Tezcatlipoca : jaguar metaphors and the Aztec mirror of nature / Nicholas J.Saunders; title: 13. Nanook, super-male : the polar bear in the imaginary space and social time of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic; title: 14. Antelope as self-image among the Uduk / Wendy James; title: 15. The track of the python : a West African origin story / Eugenia Shanklin; title: 16. Nigerian cultural attitudes to the dog / J.Olowo Ojoade; title: 17. Rodeo horses : the wild and the tame / Elizabeth A.Lawrence; title: 18. The beast without : the moa as a colonial frontier myth in New Zealand / Atholl Anderson; title: 19. The meaning of the snake / Roy Willis.