| Description |
xxvi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
One world archaeology ; 16 |
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One world archaeology ; 16
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| Contents |
The pangolin revisited : a new approach to animal symbolism / Mary Douglas -- Cultural attitudes to birds and animals in folklore / Jawarharlal Handoo -- Animal language in the Garden of Eden : folktale elements in Genesis / G. Koolemans Beynen -- A semantic analysis of the symbolism of Toba mythical animals / Pablo G. Wright -- Back to the future : trophy arrays as mental maps in the Wopkaimin's culture of place / David C. Hyndman -- Sheep bone as a sign of human descent : tibial symbolism among the Mongols / Slawoj Szynkiewicz -- Ecological community and species attributes in Yolngu religious symbolism / Ian Keen -- Pictish animal symbols / Anthony Jackson -- The idea of fish : land and sea in the Icelandic world-view / Gísli Pálsson -- Animals in Hopi duality / Mark Tomas Bahti -- Eat and be eaten : animals in U'wa (Tunebo) oral tradition / Ann Osborn -- Tezcatlipoca : jaguar metaphors and the Aztec mirror of nature / Nicholas J. Saunders -- Nanook, super-male : the polar bear in the imaginary space and social time of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic -- Antelope as self-image among the Uduk / Wendy James |
| Analysis |
Animals Relationships with man |
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Man Relationships with animals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Animals -- Folklore.
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Animals -- Symbolic aspects.
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Hunting and gathering societies.
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Human-animal relationships.
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| Author |
Willis, Roy G.
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World Archaeological Congress (1986 : Southampton, England)
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| LC no. |
89016644 |
| ISBN |
0044450141 |
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