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Culture and Society : Twenty-Four Essays /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Pittsburgh] University of Pittsburgh Press [1965]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Anthropology and its sister sciences: The science of human learning, society, culture, and personality
  • Sociology and anthropology
  • British social anthropology
  • Anthropology and its contribution to public health
  • 2. The nature of culture: The science of culture
  • Fundamental characteristics of culture
  • The common denominator of cultures
  • 3. Dynamics of cultural change: How culture changes
  • Cultural evolution
  • Cultural relativity
  • Changing emphases in social structure
  • 4. Social organization: Double descent
  • Cognatic forms of social organization
  • Social organization of the Tenino
  • Social organization of Truk
  • Anthropology in Micronesia
  • 5. Religion, ceremonial, and recreation: Tenino shamanism
  • Rank and potlatch among the Haida
  • Waging baseball in Truk
  • 6. Cross-cultural comparison: Anthropology as a comparative science
  • Comparative data on the division of labor by sex
  • Family stability in non-European cultures
  • Cross-language parallels in parental kin terms
  • Political moieties.