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Competitive Interference and Twentieth Century Diplomacy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gillin, John, 1907-1973
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Pittsburgh] University of Pittsburgh Press [1969]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : An appreciation
  • Preface
  • I. Getting into anthropology. Explorin'
  • II. Native peoples. Religion among the Barama River Caribs
  • Parallel cultures and the inhibitions to acculturation in a Guatemalan community
  • Approaches to marriage on the north Peruvian coast
  • Quichua-speaking Indians of Northern Ecuador
  • III. The culture of modern Latin America. Modern Latin American culture
  • The culture area of Latin America in the modern world
  • Some signposts for policy
  • IV. Psychology and culture. Custom and range of human response
  • Personality formation from the comparative cultural point of view
  • Magical fright
  • The making of a witch doctor
  • Cross-cultural aspects of sociocultural therapy
  • V. United States culture and the modern world. Methodological problems in the study of modern cultures
  • Notes on southern culture patterns
  • National and regional cultural values in the United States
  • The school in the context of the community
  • Theoretical possibilities of induced sociocultural collapse
  • Human behavior and the social sciences
  • VI. A science of social man. The forward view.