Culture and Society : Twenty-Four Essays /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Pittsburgh]
University of Pittsburgh Press
[1965]
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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.