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- catalog abstract ""This book describes in detail the relationship between the Nage people of eastern Indonesia and the birds whose environment they share. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, it explores the ways in which a human society interacts with members of another zoological class and attaches particular values to these in a variety of cultural and conceptual contexts. As well as a fascinating study of the local ornithology of the Indonesian island of Flores, Nage Birds provides a critical review of current theoretical debate regarding how non-western societies categorize and think about non-human forms of animal life. Ranging from issues of taxonomy and naming to the fascinating subject of birds' prophetic associations and their places in religious representations, myth, poetry and song, Gregory Forth's richly detailed work will be invaluable to students of ethnobiology, social and cultural anthropology, folklore, zoology and Southeast Asia."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12996449.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""This book describes in detail the relationship between the Nage people of eastern Indonesia and the birds whose environment they share. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, it explores the ways in which a human society interacts with members of another zoological class and attaches particular values to these in a variety of cultural and conceptual contexts. As well as a fascinating study of the local ornithology of the Indonesian island of Flores, Nage Birds provides a critical review of current theoretical debate regarding how non-western societies categorize and think about non-human forms of animal life.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Ethno-ornithological classification: generic categories and ethnotaxonomy -- 3. Intermediate categories, binary associations, and nomenclature -- 4. Things that go po in the night: ethnotaxonomy and symbolic classification -- 5. Spiritual birds -- 6. Birds as omens and taboo -- 7. Hibernating swallows, kite stones, and the legless nightjar: some curiosities of Nage bird knowledge -- 8. Birds in myth and metaphor -- 9. The story of Tupa Lelu, or how birds of prey became chicken thieves -- 10. Comparisons and conclusions.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index.".
- catalog description "Ranging from issues of taxonomy and naming to the fascinating subject of birds' prophetic associations and their places in religious representations, myth, poetry and song, Gregory Forth's richly detailed work will be invaluable to students of ethnobiology, social and cultural anthropology, folklore, zoology and Southeast Asia."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xii, 234 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415318270".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 8".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "Indonesia.".
- catalog subject "598.16/3/0899922 21".
- catalog subject "Birds Classification.".
- catalog subject "DS632.N35 F67 2004".
- catalog subject "Folk classification Indonesia.".
- catalog subject "Nage (Indonesian people) Ethnozoology.".
- catalog subject "Nage (Indonesian people) Religion.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Ethno-ornithological classification: generic categories and ethnotaxonomy -- 3. Intermediate categories, binary associations, and nomenclature -- 4. Things that go po in the night: ethnotaxonomy and symbolic classification -- 5. Spiritual birds -- 6. Birds as omens and taboo -- 7. Hibernating swallows, kite stones, and the legless nightjar: some curiosities of Nage bird knowledge -- 8. Birds in myth and metaphor -- 9. The story of Tupa Lelu, or how birds of prey became chicken thieves -- 10. Comparisons and conclusions.".
- catalog title "Nage birds : classification and symbolism among an eastern Indonesian people / Gregory Forth.".
- catalog type "text".