A Reply to Whitney's Review of Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird

  • Gregory Forth Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Keywords: Porcupine

Author Biography

Gregory Forth, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Gregory Forth is an anthropologist with interests in ethnozoology, religion, symbolism, and cognition. He is the author of nine books, including two on eastern Indonesian folk zoology and another on mystery hominoids.

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Forth, G. 2016. Why the Porcupine is not a Bird: Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People. Toronto University Press, Toronto.

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Whitney, C. 2018. Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird: Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People. By Gregory Forth. 2016. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 375 pp. Ethnobiology Letters 9:103–104. DOI:10.14237/ebl.9.2.2018.1204.

Published
2021-08-05
How to Cite
Forth, G. (2021). A Reply to Whitney’s Review of Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird. Ethnobiology Letters, 12(1), 70–72. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1765
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