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leper, hyena, and blacksmith in Kujamaat Diola thought

Author(s) -

SAPIR J. DAVID

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

american ethnologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875

H-Index - 78

eISSN - 1548-1425

pISSN - 0094-0496

DOI - 10.1525/ae.1981.8.3.02a00070

Subject(s) - hyena , relation (database) , ethnography , sociology , natural (archaeology) , epistemology , the symbolic , anthropology , history , psychology , archaeology , ecology , philosophy , computer science , biology , psychoanalysis , database

Taken together, the disposal of a dead leper and the funeral for a hyena shot while hunting provide a way into a set of categories developed in Kujamaat Diola thought. I begin with the funerals and proceed first to supply ethnographic background to Kujamaat ideas about lepers and hyenas; I then go on to consider the symbolics of each in relation to the other and to related categories. The symbolic analysis takes into account three interdependent processes: variable marking, associative linkages, and analogic systematics. [leprosy; hyenas; blacksmithing; marking; natural symbols; symbolic anthropology]

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