HOPI ETHNOANATOMY: A COMPARATIVE TREATMENT'

Abstract

AT THE VERY LEAST, all men everywhere possess the human body in common. This body is anatomically and physiologically very uniform and the manner in which human beings name and categorize its various aspects demonstrates the inherent and observable unities and discontinuities it possesses. For these reasons ethnoanatomical systems promise to be an attractive domain for cross-cultural comparison.2 In addition, the centrality and importance of this domain to the study of native theories of health, disease, and medicine cannot be overemphasized. At times, the human body, along with the perceived culturally varying relationships of its identified parts, has been used as a metaphor for society as a whole, as Douglas (1966) suggests, and as ethnologists in several West African societies have noted.3 Systematic study of native anatomical systems, however, has been rare.4 This is unfortunate because this domain, in addition to its universality, is much larger than the more traditional color and kin terminological domains, and thus provides an expanded field for formu-

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