The Cultural Relations of Classification: An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram

by Roy F. Ellen

Book Overview

Ethnobiology is concerned with the social and cultural transformation of biological knowledge. Roy Ellen, who has worked among the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than twenty years, argues here that ethnobiology is a key theoretical area of anthropological enquiry, because it relies on accessible ethnography to explain the interrelationship between collective representations and cognitive processes. He demonstrates this through a detailed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521025737
• ISBN13: 9780521025737
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"