A "Cock" and "Bull" Story: Nage Sex Terms and Their Implications for Ethnozoological Classification  

Oleh:

Forth, Gregory

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 46 no. 4 (Feb. 2004), page 427-449.
Fulltext: Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 427-449.pdf (3.11MB)

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Exemplified by English bull and cow, special terms distinguishing members of animal categories by sex are a common feature of languages the world over. The application of such terms in Nage, a language of eastern Indo- nesia, reveals a system of classification consistent both with the general ethno- zoological taxonomy and with culturally important symbolic and utilitarian contrasts. Applied to all creatures classified as "animals" (ana wa), Nage sex differentiable terms are predicated on differences in genital form and features of copulation and reproduction. Partly in this regard, the terms provide support for an unnamed category "mammal" and thus point to a hitherto unremarked criterion for identifying covert taxa-a topic of perennial interest in the general study of folk taxonomies.

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