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Folk mammalogy of the Northern Pimans /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rea, Amadeo M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1998]
Subjects:
Piman Indians > Ethnozoology.
Mammals > Arizona.
Mammals > Mexico.
Table of Contents:
  • Mammals in Piman culture
  • The Northern Pimans and their country
  • An overview of folk taxonomy
  • Mammals and staying sickness
  • Hunting
  • Hunting implements
  • Game preparation and cooking
  • Mammalian anatomy
  • Old world mammals and changes in Piman culture
  • Piman mammals
  • Plan of the folk generics (biological species accounts)
  • Order chiroptera, bats
  • Order lagomorpha, rabbits and hares
  • Order rodentia, rodents
  • Order carnivora, carnivores
  • Order artiodactyla, hoofed mammals
  • Appendices
  • Folk mammalogy checklist
  • Circus and zoo mammals
  • Some Upper Piman men's names relating to mammals
  • Orthography: the sounds of Akimel and Tohono O'odham.