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Signifying Animals

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Roy Willis
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Taylor & Francis, Oct 1, 1994 - Social Science - 258 pages
Signifying Animalsexamines what animals mean to human beings around the world, offering a fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. The essays in the book are based on first-hand field research with peoples as dissimilar as the Mongolian nomads of Soviet Central Asia, Aboriginal Australians, Inuit hunters of the Canadian Arctic and cultivators of Africa and Papua New Guinea. The essays look at accounts of mythical beasts among the Amerindian peoples of Andean South America, alleged sightings of an extinct giant bird in New Zealand as well as the complex symbolism of the American rodeo. Others discuss animal symbolism in the Middle East, India and the ancient picts of Scotland. The book advances a powerful argument against some prevalent fallacies in symbolic interpretation.

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JSTOR: Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World
Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World. ROY WILLIS, ed. London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990. xxvi + 258 pp., maps, figures (including ...
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Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World
Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World Book by Roy Willis; 1994. Read Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World at Questia ...
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anthrosource | American Ethnologist - 20(4):878 - Citation
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Signifying Animals
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Attitudes to Animals: human-animal relations in archaeology 20 ...
Social Sciences. London and New York: Routledge. Willis, rg (ed.) 1989. Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World. London: Unwin Hyman.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ archaeology/ events/ conferences/ other/ animals-2007/ Conference-info-May07.pdf

Modes of production and minke whaling: The case of Iceland
The idea of fish: land and sea in the Icelandic world-view. In Signifying animals: human meaning in the natural world (ed.) Roy Willis. London: Unwin Hyman. ...
www.thearctic.is/ articles/ cases/ minkewhaling/ enska/ kafli_0700.htm

Virginia Hall's Syllabus on Animals and Human Society
Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World, 1994, ny: Routledge. Paul, es and jaSerpell, "Childhood pet keeping and attitudes in young adulthood ...
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Szabo: Bad to the Bone: The Unnatural History of Monstrous ...
Signifying animals: Human meaning in the natural world. London: Unwin Hyman Ltd. Wood, Ian. 1990. Ripon, Francia and the Franks Casket in the early Middle ...
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Signifying animals: human meaning in the Natural World, London, 1990. WILMA, George, The naming of the beast. Natural history in the medieval bestiary, ...
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ ~histweb/ medhist/ pascua/ nature/ bibliog2.html

Animal Studies Bibliography
Rodeo Horses: the wild and the tame, In rg Willis (ed) Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World. 222-?. Boston: Unwin Hyman. ...
ecoculturalgroup.msu.edu/ bibliography.htm

About the author (1994)

Willis is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

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