Visual Categories: An Approach to the Study of Representational Systems
Nancy D. Munn
The graphic representations of the central Australian Walbiri and supplementary comparative data are used to explore general thesis that categorical analysis can be applied representational systems. Certain features meaning ranges typical elements examined compared with those pictorial from other It is suggested tolemic designs, consisting combinations these elements, function classify species by dissecting reassembling them in a manner similar described Lévi-Strauss for cultural
American Anthropologist