Title: Folk mammalogy of the Northern Pimans
First published: 1998
Description: Knowledge held about animals by Pima-speaking Native Americans of Arizona and northwest Mexico is intimately entwined with their way of life - a way that is fading from memory as beavers and wolves also vanish from the Southwest. Ethnobiologist Amadeo Rea has conducted extensive fieldwork among the Northern Pimans and here shares what these people know about mammals and how mammals affect their lives.

At the heart of the book are detailed species accounts that relate Piman knowledge of the bats, rabbits, rodents, carnivores, and hoofed mammals in their world, encompassing creatures ranging from deer mouse to mule deer, cottontail to cougar. Rea has been careful to emphasize folk knowledge in these accounts by letting the Pimans tell their own stories about mammals, as related in transcribed conversations.
Subjects: Mammals, Ethnozoology, Piman Indians, Mammals, united states, Indians of north america, west (u.s.), Human-animal relationships, Mammals, mexico
Places: Arizona, Mexico
LC classification: E99.P62 R43 1998