People, Countries and the Rainbow Serpent
Systems of Classification Among the Lardil of Mornington Island
Inbunden, Engelska, 1999
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The Lardil, an Australian Aboriginal tribe, have a complex cognitive culture and are speakers of three different languages, each used for different occasions. McKnight examines their systems of classifying the world, and creates an inventory of the cognitive aspects of their social structures.