
Signifying Animals
Roy Willis(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 30. November 1989
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-04-445014-6 (ISBN)
Description
A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-04-445014-6 (9780044450146)
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Person
Roy Willis, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.
Content
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