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The semiotics of tabooed food: Shokleng (Gê)
Food taboos in lowland South America • (3) • Published In 1981 • Pages: 76-90
By: Urban, Greg, Kensinger, Kenneth M., Kracke, Waud H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In contrast to the hypothesis suggested by Eric B. Ross that societal food taboos are ecological based and can be analyzed within the framework of an ecosystem; Urban contends that while the ecosystem approach has its own analytic value, these taboos may also be profitably analyzed within the context of a semiotic approach. The author believes that food taboos, taken as a whole, comprise a complex signal system which tends to specify a certain degree of status within certain social categores in the society, such as age grade groups, moieties, classes, and males and females.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Diet
- Sociolinguistics
- Semantics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Xokleng
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Shokleng, Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- Greg Urban
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 90)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82137194
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shokleng Indians