Preface Note on Orthography Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Investigating Folk Knowledge: A Methodological Prospectus Chapter 3. Animals, Humans, and Other Mammals Part 1: Mammals Chapter 4. Animals of the Village: Domestic and Partly Domestic Mammals Chapter 5. The Giant Rat of Flores and Other Never Domesticated Mammals Chapter 6. Symbolic and Utilitarian Dimensions of Mammal Categories: Varieties of Special Purpose Classification Part 2: Non-mammals Chapter 7. Birds, or "Creatures that Fly High in the Sky" Chapter 8.

Snakes: The Life-form Nipa Chapter 9. Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Non-mammalian Miscellany Chapter 10. Things with Tails but without Backbones: Invertebrates in Nage Folk Zoology Part 3: Comparisons and Curiosities Chapter 11. What's in an Animal Name: Comparative Observations on Animal Nomenclature, Classification, and Symbolism Chapter 12. When Birds Turn Into Mammals and Mammals into Fish: Nage "Beliefs" about Animal Transformation Chapter 13. Animal Mysteries and Disappearing Animals Chapter 14. Concluding Remarks Appendix 1. Terms for Human and Animal Body Parts Appendix 2.

Growth Stages in Several Wild Animals Appendix 3. Nage Invertebrate Categories Appendix 4. Animal Names Used as Personal Names in Central Nage.