![]() ![]() Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. THE CULTURAL RELATIONS OF CLASSIFICATION An analysis of Nuaulu animal categories from central Seram ROY ELLEN The University of Kent at CanterburyĬAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: © Cambridge University Press 1993 This publication is in copyright. ![]() _ Head of the clan Matoke and 'Lord of the Land' in the Nuaulu village of Aihisuru a characteristic pose in the auwoti dance: 2 January 1970. ![]() This is an innovative study which takes our understanding beyond the arid taxonomic abstraction characteristic of earlier work in the field.Ĭambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Editors: Ernest Geliner, Jack Goody, Stephen Gudeman, Michael Herzfeld, Jonathan Parry 91 The cultural relations of classification The classifications are shown to be context bound and socially embedded, of practical importance to their users, and to reflect an interaction between culture, cognitive processes, and the material world. ![]() He demonstrates this through a detailed analysis of Nuaulu classification of animal knowledge: the relationship between animal words and animal categories the construction of different categories and their relationship to one another and the actual language of classification. Roy Ellen, who has worked among the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than twenty years, argues here that ethnobiology is a key theoretical area of anthropological inquiry, because it relies on accessible ethnography to explain the interrelationship between collective representations and cognitive processes. Ethnobiology is concerned with the social and cultural transformation of biological knowledge. ![]()
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