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Medieval age. A cultural history of animals. Vol. 2. Oxford, Berg.
ROWLAND (B.), 1974: Animals with human faces: a guide to animal symbolism. Knoxville, Univ. of Tennessee
Press. 172 pp.
ROWLAND (B.), 1978: Birds with human souls: a guide to bird symbolism. Knoxville, Univ. of Tennessee Press. 213
pp.
SAVILL (S.), 1977: Pears Encyclopedia of myths and legends: Western and Northern Europe, Central and Southern
Africa. London, Pelham. 192 pp.
SAVILL (S.) & LOCKE (E.), 1976: Pears Encyclopedia of myths and legends: Ancient Near and Middle East, Ancient
Greece and Rome. London, Pelham. 224 pp.
SAX (B.), 1990: The Frog King. On fables, fairy tales, legends and anecdotes of animals. New York, Peace UP/UP of
America.
SAX (B.), 2002: The mythical zoo. An encyclopedia of animals in world myth, legend, and literature. Santa Barbara,
ABC-CLIO.
SAX (B.), 2007: The golden spider and her world-wide web: sacred and symbolic animals in the era of change. In:
MALAMUD (R.) (ed.): A cultural history of animals in the modern age. A cultural history of animals, Vol. 6. Oxford,
Berg.
SILLAR (F.C.) & MEYLER (R.M.), 1961: The symbolic pig. London, Oliver and Boyd.
VAJ (S.), 1989 ; L’éléphant. Art, histoire, symbolisme. [Translation by F. Brun of Elefante, Milano, Arnoldo
Mondadori] Paris, Robert Laffont. 112 pp.
BACKGROUND & FURTHER READING:
WILDLIFE, NATURE AND ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY, RELIGION, SYMBOLISM AND FOLKLORE – NON-WESTERN
CHOSKYI (J.), 1988: Symbolism of animals in Buddhism. Buddhist Himalaya 1(1):
COSTENTINO (D.J.), 1992: Elephant as metaphor in African myth and folklore. In: ROSS (D.H.) (ed.): Elephants: the
animal and its ivory in African culture. Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cult. History/Univ. of California :
DOUGLAS (M.), 1990 : The pangolin revisited : a new approach to animal symbolism. In : WILLIS (R.G.) (ed.) :
Signifying animals. Human meaning in the natural world. London, Unwin Hyman : 25-36.
MALAISE (M.), 1993: Les animaux dans la culture chinoise. Numéro special. [Animals in Chinese culture. Special
issue.] Anthropozoologica 18.
URTON (G.) (ed.), 1985: Animal myths and metaphors in South America. Salt Lake City, Univ. of Utah Press.
BACKGROUND & FURTHER READING : FOLK BIOLOGY
BERLIN (B.), 1992: Ethnobiological classification: principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional
societies. Princeton, Princeton UP.
BOWKER (G.) & LEIGH STAR (S.), 1999: Sorting things out: classification and its consequences. Cambridge,
Cambridge UP.
MEDIN (D.L.) & ATRAN (S.) (eds.), 1999: Folkbiology. Cambridge, MIT Press. 514 pp.
POLING (D.A.) & EVANS (E.M.), 2004: Religious belief, scientific expertise, and folk ecology. J. Cognition &
Culture 4(3): 485-524.
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