Name: Signifying Animals
ISBN: 9780203169353

ABSTRACT

A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction: Roy Willis

chapter 1|11 pages

The pangolin revisited: a new approach to animal symbolism: Mary Douglas

chapter 2|5 pages

Cultural attitudes to birds and animals in folklore: Jawaharlal Handoo

chapter 3|12 pages

Animal language in the Garden of Eden: folktale elements in Genesis: G.koolemans Beynen

chapter 4|8 pages

A semantic analysis of the symbolism of Toba mythical animals: Pablo G.wright

chapter 5|11 pages

Back to the future: trophy arrays as mental maps in the Wopkaimin's culture of place: David C.Hyndman

chapter 6|10 pages

Sheep bone as a sign of human descent: tibial symbolism among the Mongols

chapter 7|17 pages

Ecological community and species attributes in Yolngu religious symbolism

chapter 8|17 pages

Pictish animal symbols

chapter 9|14 pages

The idea of fish: land and sea in the Icelandic world-view:Gisli palsson

chapter 10|6 pages

Animals in Hopi duality: Mary Tomas Bahti

chapter 11|17 pages

Eat and be eaten: animals in U’wa (Tunebo) oral tradition: Ann osborn

chapter 12|18 pages

Tezcatlipoca: jaguar metaphors and the Aztec mirror of nature

chapter 13|17 pages

Nanook, super-male: the polar bear in the imaginary space and social time of the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic

chapter 14|8 pages

Antelope as self-image among the Uduk: Wendy James

chapter 15|10 pages

The track of the python: a West African origin story: Eugenia Shankilin

chapter 16|7 pages

Nigerian cultural attitudes to the dog

chapter 17|13 pages

Rodeo Horses: the wild and the tame

chapter 18|9 pages

The beast without: the moa as a colonial frontier myth in New Zealand

chapter 19|7 pages

The meaning of the snake

Signifying Animals