Signifying Animals (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Willis, Roy

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Produktbeschreibung

"Signifying Animals" examines what animals mean to human beings around the world, offering a fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. The essays in the book are based on first-hand field research with peoples as dissimilar as the Mongolian nomads of Soviet Central Asia, Aboriginal Australians, Inuit hunters of the Canadian Arctic and cultivators of Africa and Papua New Guinea. The essays look at accounts of mythical beasts among the Amerindian peoples of Andean South America, alleged sightings of an extinct giant bird in New Zealand as well as the complex symbolism of the American rodeo. Others discuss animal symbolism in the Middle East, India and the ancient picts of Scotland. The book advances a powerful argument against some prevalent fallacies in symbolic interpretation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134866359
• Artikelnr.: 38260326

Autorenporträt

Roy Willis, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

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