Author

Publication

1998 - University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona

Language

English

Word Count

71,500 words, Guess

Page Count

286 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC599.16/3/09791
  • LCCE99.P62 R43 1998

Description

Knowledge held about animals by Pima-speaking Native Americans of Arizona and northwest Mexico is intimately entwined with their way of life - a way that is fading from memory as beavers and wolves also vanish from the Southwest. Ethnobiologist Amadeo Rea has conducted extensive fieldwork among the Northern Pimans and here shares what these people know about mammals and how mammals affect their lives. At the heart of the book are detailed species accounts that relate Piman knowledge of the bats, rabbits, rodents, carnivores, and hoofed mammals in their world, encompassing creatures ranging from deer mouse to mule deer, cottontail to cougar. Rea has been careful to emphasize folk knowledge in these accounts by letting the Pimans tell their own stories about mammals, as related in transcribed conversations.

Subjects

Topics

MammalsEthnozoologyPiman IndiansMammals, mexicoMammals -- MexicoMammals -- ArizonaMammals, united states

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Other Editions

  • Folk mammalogy of the Northern PimansUniversity of Arizona Press1998-01-01

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