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Roy Ellen

The Categorical Impulse

Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior

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Classification, as an object of recent anthropological scrutiny came to prominence during the 1960s, exemplified in the British (constructionist) tradition by the writings of Mary Douglas, and in the American ethno-semantics (cognitive) tradition by the likes of Harold Conklin and Brent Berlin. At the time, these approaches seemed by turns to contradict each other, or even to exist in parallel universes. However, over the last 30 years we have witnessed both a renewed interest in classification studies as well as a cross-fertilization of these once antagonistic approaches. These essays by one of leading scholars in this field bring together… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84545-017-5
  • EAN: 9781845450175
  • Produktnummer: 19825448
  • Verlag: Berghahn Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 248 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 445 g
  • Gewicht: 445
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


Roy Ellen was educated at the London School of Economics and is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he has taught since 1973. His numerous and varied publications include Environment, Subsistence and System (1982), The Cultural Relations of Classification (1993), and most recently, On the Edge of the Banda Zone (2003).

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