The savage mind = (la pensée sauvage) / [by] Claude Levi-Strauss; [translated from the French]
- Bib ID:
- 1284169
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Levi-Strauss, Claude
- Description:
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- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c1966
- xii, 290 p., [8] p. of plates : illus., 8 plates, maps, tables, diagrs. ; 22 cm.
- Series:
- Nature of human society series.
- Summary:
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Analysis of forms of social classification of man and nature using ethnographic examples from all over the world including Australia; ethnobotany and ethnozoology among Wik Munkan, Ngarinyin in Kimberley district and Aranda; Wik Munkan system of naming and kinship terms; kinship marriage, cosmology and totemism among the Aranda, Warramangga, Kaitish and Unmatjeri Murngin mythology; totemism in the Cape York Peninsula; Aranda ritual objects.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- National Library of Australia's NL copy has a bookseller sticker of F.W. Cheshire (Canberra, A.C.T.) on inside of front cover.
- Bibliography: p. 271-282.
- Subject:
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- Ethnophilosophy
- Ethnology
- Religion
- Language - Personal names
- Warumungu people (C18) (NT SE53-10)
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Boards
- Religion - Totemism
- Anmatyerre / Anmatyerr people (C8.1) (NT SF53-09)
- Wik Mungkan people (Y57) (Qld SD54-07)
- Indigenous knowledge - Botany
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects
- Kaytetye / Kaytej people (C13) (NT SF53-06)
- Indigenous knowledge - Zoology
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin people (K18) (WA SE52-01)
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Social organisation - Kinship - Marriage
- West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- South Central Northern Territory (NT)
- Australian
- Also Titled:
- Pensée sauvage
- Copyright:
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