The Categorical Impulse : : Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior / / Roy Ellen.
Classification, as an object of recent anthropological scrutiny came to prominence during the 1960s, exemplified in the British (constructionist) tradition by the writings of Mary Douglas, and in the American ethno-semantics (cognitive) tradition by the likes of Harold Conklin and Brent Berlin. At t...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Categories, Classification and Cognitive Anthropology
- CHAPTER 2 Anthropological Studies of Classification (1996)
- CHAPTER 3 Classifying in its Social Context (1979)
- CHAPTER 4 Variable Constructs in Nuaulu Zoological Classification (1975)
- CHAPTER 5 Anatomical Classification and the Semiotics of the Body (1977)
- CHAPTER 6 Grass, Grerb or Weed? The Ethnography of a Plant Life-form (1991)
- CHAPTER 7 Palms and the Prototypicality of Trees (1998)
- CHAPTER 8 The Inedible and the Uneatable (1998)
- CHAPTER 9 Fetishism: A Cognitive Approach (1988)
- CHAPTER 10 The Cognitive Geometry of Nature: A Contextual Approach (1996)
- Bibliography
- Index