The categorical impulse : essays in the anthropology of classifying behaviour /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ellen, R. F., 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Classification.
Human behavior > Classification.
Ethnopsychology > Classification.
Ethnologie > Classification.
Comportement humain > Classification.
Ethnopsychologie > Classification.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnology
Ethnopsychology
Human behavior
Classification
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Table of Contents:
  • The Categorical Impulse; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; List of Tables; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; 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.

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