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100 1 $aForth, Gregory,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWhy the porcupine is not a bird :$bexplorations in the folk zoology of an eastern Indonesian people /$cGregory Forth.
263 $a1604
264 1 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$c[2016]
264 4 $c©2016
300 $axiv, 375 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm.
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490 1 $aAnthropological horizons
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 343-362) and index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating folk knowledge : a methodological prospectus -- 3. Animals, humans, and other mammals -- 4. Animals of the village : domestic and partly domestic mammals -- 5. The giant rat of Flores and other never-domesticated mammals -- 6. Symbolic and utilitarian dimensions of mammal categories : varieties of special-purpose classification -- 7. Birds, or "creatures that fly high in the sky" -- 8. Snakes : the life-form nipa -- 9. Neither fish nor fowl : a non-mammalian miscellany -- 10. Things with tails but without backbones : invertebrates in Nage folk zoology -- 11. What's in an animal name : comparative observations on animal nomenclature, classification, and symbolism -- 12. When birds turn into mammals and mammals into fish : Nage "beliefs" about animal transformation -- 13. Animal mysteries and disappearing animals -- 14. Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1. Terms for human and animal body parts -- Appendix 2. Growth stages in several wild mammals -- Appendix 3. Nage invertebrate categories -- Appendix 4. Animal names used as personal names in central Nage.
520 $a"Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge of animals among the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia. Gregory Forth sheds light on the ongoing anthropological debate surrounding the categorization of animals in small-scale non-Western societies."--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Forth's detailed discussion of how the Nage people conceptualize their relationship to the animal world covers the naming and classification of animals, their symbolic and practical use, and the ecology of central Flores and its change over the years. His study reveals the empirical basis of Nage classifications, which align surprisingly well with the taxonomies of modern biologists. It also shows how the Nage employ systems of symbolic and utilitarian classification distinct from their general taxonomy. A tremendous source of ethnographic detail, Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is an important contribution to the fields of ethnobiology and cognitive anthropology."--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aNage (Indonesian people)$xEthnozoology.
650 0 $aEthnozoology$zIndonesia$zFlores Island.
650 0 $aAnimals$zIndonesia$zFlores Island$vNomenclature (Popular)
650 0 $aFolk classification$zIndonesia$zFlores Island.
830 0 $aAnthropological horizons.
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