Signifying Animals (One World Archaeology Series, Vol 16)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 30, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780044450146
Subjects: Anthropology; Archaeology; Human ecology; Social, group or collective psychology; Nature/Ecology; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Social Science / Archaeology; Folklore; Animals; Hunting and gathering societie; Hunting and gathering societies; Symbolic aspects
First sentence: The general topic of this volume, the human-animal relation, returns us to the complex of ideas that provided modern anthropology with its distinctive subject matter more than a century ago under the label of 'totemism'.