摘要：In a passage of The Savage Mind often read with both admiration and skepticism (Leach 1970, 140), Claude Lévi-Strauss (1966, 204) draws a contrast between the sociality of birds, characterized as “metaphoric,” and the sociality of cattle, described as “metonymic.” Metaphoric and metonymic are linguistic terms describing distances and proximities in relations between humans and animals. Birds, he writes, “form a community which is independent of our own, but precisely because of this independence, appears to us like another society, homologous to that in which we live: birds love freedom; they build themselves homes in which they live a family life and nurture their young; they often engage in social relations with other members of their species; and they communicate with them by acoustic means recalling articulated language.” This description in the language of early 1960s ethnozoology may retain its relevance for current biosecurity practices in the management of diseases transmitted between animals and humans, or zoonoses.
关键词：avian influenza; sentinel; surveillance; governmentality; ontologies; Hong Kong
