Signifying Animals

ISBN-13: 9780415095556 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str.

Roy Willis; Roy G. Willis

Opis

A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Based on first-hand field research among peoples as dissimilar as the Mongolian nomads, Aboriginal Australians, Inuit hunters and the cultivators of Africa and Papua New Guinea, this study reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.

O autorze

Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.