The categorical impulse : essays in the anthropology of classifying behaviour /: essays in the anthropology of classifying behaviour. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Roy Ellen.
• Authors: Ellen, R. F, 1947-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (247 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 305.80012; Ethnology -- Classification; Human behavior -- Classification; Ethnopsychology -- Classification; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Ethnology; Ethnopsychology; Human behavior; Electronic books; Classification
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857455703; 0857455702
• Related ISBNs: 9781845450175; 9781845451554
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 25, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.