When Is a Fish Not a Fish? Questions Raised by a Nage Life-Form Category
<p>Speakers of a Central-Malayo-Polynesian language, the Nage inhabit the central region of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores. Their folk taxonomy of animals (ana wa) contains three named life-form taxa, one of which is ika, fish. A review of component folk-generic taxa, however, reveals...
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Society of Ethnobiology
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Ethnobiology Letters |
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/41 |