Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Preface ix
5. Note on Orthography and Language Groupings xiii
6. 1. Introduction 3
7. 2. Investigating Folk Knowledge: A Methodological Prospectus 28
8. 3. Animals, Humans, and Other Mammals 52
9. Part One: Mammals
10. 4. Animals of the Village: Domestic and Partly Domestic Mammals 75
11. 5. The Giant Rat of Flores and Other Never-Domesticated Mammals 105
12. 6. Symbolic and Utilitarian Dimensions of Mammal Categories: Varieties of Special-Purpose Classifi cation 135
13. Part 2: Non-mammals
14. 7. Birds, or “Creatures That Fly High in the Sky” 165
15. 8. Snakes: The Life-Form Nipa 185
16. 9. Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Non-mammalian Miscellany 207
17. 10. Things with Tails but without Backbones: Invertebrates in Nage Folk Zoology 227
18. Part 3: Comparisons and Curiosities
19. 11. What’s in an Animal Name: Comparative Observations on Animal Nomenclature, Classifi cation, and Symbolism 249
20. 12. When Birds Turn into Mammals and Mammals into Fish: Nage “Beliefs” about Animal Transformation 276
21. 13. Animal Mysteries and Disappearing Animals 295
22. 14. Concluding Remarks 313
23. Appendix 1: Terms for Human and Animal Body Parts 325
24. Appendix 2: Growth Stages in Several Wild Mammals 327
25. Appendix 3: Nage Invertebrate Categories 329
26. Appendix 4: Animal Names Used as Personal Names in Central Nage 341
27. Notes 343
28. References 349
29. Index 363