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| Title: | Notes on Ngangela and Nkoya ethnozoology: ants and termites |
| Author: | Silow, Carl-Axel |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Issue: | 36 |
| Pages: | 177 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ethnological studies (ISSN 0374-7530) |
| City of publisher: | Göteborg |
| Publisher: | Göteborgs Etnografiska Museum |
| Geographic term: | Zambia |
| Subjects: | Ngangela Nkoya zoology insects |
| Abstract: | The author collected data in Mid-Western Zambia (April 1972-March 1973) on the ethnoentomology of a group of closely related matrilineal and virilocal peoples with exogamous clans of the Southern Lunda complex. In these cultures people decidedly use a basic taxonomic concept - called here 'ethnospecies' - very close to a more unsophisticated scientific species concept. In Part I the ant ethnospecies are treated, in Part II the termite ethnospecies, as they are distinguished by informants. Then higher taxonomic levels are dealt with. Each part is concluded with a discussion of how ants and termites respectively are taxonomically systematized by the studied peoples. |