The categorical impulse : essays in the anthropology of classifying behaviour /: essays in the anthropology of classifying behaviour. (2008)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The categorical impulse : essays in the anthropology of classifying behaviour /: essays in the anthropology of classifying behaviour. (2008)
- Main Title:
- The categorical impulse : essays in the anthropology of classifying behaviour
- 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).
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- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.151388
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