The categorical impulse : essays on the anthropology of classifying behaviour / Roy Ellen.
The categorical impulse : essays on the anthropology of classifying behaviour / Roy Ellen.
The categorical impulse : essays on the anthropology of classifying behaviour / Roy Ellen.
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New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N305.80012/ 1
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English
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xi, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction : categories, classification and cognitive anthropology -- 2. Anthropological studies of classification (1996) -- 3. Classifying in its social context (1979) -- 4. Variable constructs in Nuaulu zoological classification (1975) -- 5. Anatomical classification and the semiotics of the...
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New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
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New York (State)
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2006.
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"These essays, bring together a body of influential and inter-linked work which attempts to bridge the divide between cultural and cognitive studies of classification, and which develops a more embedded and processual approach. In particular, the essays focus on people's categorization of natural kinds as a means through which to obtain an understa...
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The categorical impulse : essays on the anthropology of classifying behaviour / Roy Ellen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N305.80012/ 1
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1845450175
9781845450175
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305.80012
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991021177039702626
