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Title: Preliminary Ethnosemantics of the Avifauna Vocabulary in Jirel
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: Janardan Subedi
H. Sidky
James Hamill
Ronald H. Spielbauer
Robin Singh
J. Blangero
S. Williams-Blangero
One Sentence Summary: The article discusses ethnosemantics of vocabulary relating to birds in Jirel.

Description: The article discusses ethnosemantics of vocabulary relating to birds in Jirel. The article starts with a brief discussion on ethnographic study and cognitive anthropology. It discusses the principles of folk biological classification. It includes tables containing Jirel names for birds, Jirel bird name binomials, sorting task results, description of selected birds, sort by altitude, sort by nesting environment, sort by food, and free sort. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2006-10-13)

Publisher Place: Kirtipur, Nepal
Publisher: Center for Nepal and Asian Studies
Normalized publisher place: Kathmandu
Publisher country: Nepal
Publisher URL: http://www.cnastu.org.np/
Published Date: 2000-01
URL: http://www.thlib.org/static/reprints/contributions/CNAS_27_jirel_05.pdf
Classification: Tibetan and Himalayan -- Journals -- Journals Focused on Regions -- Nepal -- Contributions to Nepalese Studies -- (2000) Vol. 27, The Jirel issue
Cultural Coverage: Nepal
Language: English
Source: Contributions to Nepalese Studies
Source Editor: Tirtha Prasad Mishra
Source Type: Journal
Source Volume: 27
Source Number: The jirel issue
Source Page Numbers: 53-77
ISBN/ISSN: 3767574

Means of availability: Available online as a PDF within the Tibetan & Himalayan Library's bibliographic database.

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Print media (print or manuscript)
Media type: text
Resource Type: Article
Digital Encoding: pdf
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Date Of Record Creation: 2008-02-06 19:30:36
Date Record Checked: 2008-02-06
Date Last Modified: 2008-02-06 19:31:56
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