Ethnology, Volume 37University of Pittsburgh, 1998 - Anthropology |
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However , in contrast to Lévi - Strauss ' s analysis of the French system , for
Maasai , birds seem to resemble domestic animals by being conceived in
metonymical terms , by their culturally defined services to human society . They
are neither ...
However , in contrast to Lévi - Strauss ' s analysis of the French system , for
Maasai , birds seem to resemble domestic animals by being conceived in
metonymical terms , by their culturally defined services to human society . They
are neither ...
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auspicious birds — birds of character and personality such as the owl , eagle ,
crow , ind nightjar — are also not killed , as a matter of definition and value . Only
the woodpecker , a very special bird , is both revered and killed . In any case ...
auspicious birds — birds of character and personality such as the owl , eagle ,
crow , ind nightjar — are also not killed , as a matter of definition and value . Only
the woodpecker , a very special bird , is both revered and killed . In any case ...
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Figure 2 : Maasai Birds of Character and Their Social Analogues Birds
Auspicious Inauspicious Of the above Eagle ( Blesser ) Owl ( Sorcerer )
Woodpecker ( Diviner ) Of the below Dove / Nightjar ( Blesser ) Crow ( Curser ) of
Il - Tarosero ...
Figure 2 : Maasai Birds of Character and Their Social Analogues Birds
Auspicious Inauspicious Of the above Eagle ( Blesser ) Owl ( Sorcerer )
Woodpecker ( Diviner ) Of the below Dove / Nightjar ( Blesser ) Crow ( Curser ) of
Il - Tarosero ...
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Contents
Volume XXXVII Number | 4 |
A New Time and Place for Bolivian Popular Politics | 99 |
Performing National Culture in a Bolivian Migrant Community | 117 |
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