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1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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). |
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CHAPTER 9. Fetishism: A Cognitive Approach (1988)CHAPTER 10. The Cognitive Geometry of Nature: A Contextual Approach (1996); Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
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 the time, these approaches seemed by turns to contradict each other, or even to exist in parallel universes. However, over the last 30 years we have witnessed both a renewed interest in classification studies as well as a cross-fertilization of these once antagonistic approaches. These essay. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Classification.
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Human behavior -- Classification.
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Ethnopsychology -- Classification.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Ethnology |
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Ethnopsychology |
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Human behavior |
| Genre/Form |
Classification
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ellen, R.F., 1947- Categorical impulse. (DLC) 2005040611 |
| ISBN |
9780857455703 (e-book) |
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0857455702 (e-book) |
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9781845450175 (hardback) |
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9781845451554 |
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