Roger Blench: Ethnoscience: mammals

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This page covers anything I have written on mammals, as well as scans of some key documents. Much of my African data remains unpublished and a table of links to data sheets is given below.

Title	Date	Status	PDF version
Larger mammals of the Niger Delta. By Bruce Powell. ms. report	1995	Unpublished	Download
Mammals of the Niger Delta. Version of the above, revised and expanded by Roger Blench	n.d.	Unpublished	Download
Lexical avoidance taboos and the reconstruction of names for large animals in Niger-Congo, an African language phylum. In: Le symbolisme des animaux - l’animal “clef de voûte” dans la tradition orale et les interactions homme-nature. eds. Edmond Dounias, Elisabeth Motte-Florac and Margaret Dunham. 545-569 + unpaginated appendices. Paris: Editions IRD.	2007	Published	Lexical avoidance
Swynnerton, Tanzanian mammal names	1943	Published	Download

I have collected names for mammals in numerous languages of West Africa, and these are posted under the relevant language elsewhere on the site.

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