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28 novembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.editionscnrs.25128
- isbn: 9782271083067
- eisbn: 9782271130266
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Richard Tapper, « Pastoralism and patriliny », CNRS Éditions, ID : 10.4000/books.editionscnrs.25128
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Some preliminaries: ‘totemic’ thinking This paper develops a suggestion I first raised in a contribution to Tim Ingold’s What is an Animal? (Tapper (1988). In that essay, I addressed the human use of animals as metaphors, as models or as ‘significant Others’. While Western philosophers, psychologists, ethologists and others have sought to establish what ‘really’ unites or differentiates humans and other animals, as an anthropologist I was more concerned with how people in diverse cultural con...