Context and meaning in cultural anthropology

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Context and meaning in cultural anthropology

In honour of A. Irving Hallowell.

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Free Press
Language
English
Pages
442

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Table of Contents

Introduction, by R.D. Folgelson and M.E. Spiro.
Ethnology and social organization. Childhood among the Yakutat Tlingit, by F. De Laguna. Algonkian social organization, by G.P. Murdock.
Religion. The self, the behavioral environment, and the theory of spirit possession, by E. Bourguignon. Religion, death, and evolutionary adaptation, by T. Dobzhansky. Psychological theories of windigo "psychosis" and a preliminary application of a models approach, by R.D. Folgelson. Religious systems as culturally constituted defense mechanisms, by M.E. Spiro.
Social character. An agrarian "fighter," by P. Friedrich. An approach to the historical study of national character, by M.G. Murphey. The life and death of a myth, by L. Wylie.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies.
--Cultural dynamics. A long record of Eskimos and Indians at the forest edge, by J.L. Giddings. Achievement and acculturation: a Japanese example, by D. Nash and L.C. Schaw. Cultural duality and behavioral integration: the human skulls ritual among the lowland Maya of northern Guatemala, by R.E. Reina.--Perception and cognition. How to choose a Burmese numeral classifier, by R. Burling. Personal names and modes of address in two oceanic societies, by W.H. Goodenough. Driving to work, by A.F.C. Wallace.--Projective tests. Culture and visual imagery: a comparison of Rorschach responses in eleven societies, by B. Kaplan and R. Lawless. Researching the perception of cultural alternatives: the instrumental activities inventory, by G. Spindler and L. Spindler. The definition of the Rorschach test situation: a cross-cultural illustration, by H.H. Williams and J.R. Williams.
--History of anthropology. Some reflections on comparative method in anthropology, by F. Eggan. Brixham Cave and the antiquity of man, by J.W. Gruber. A genealogy of ethnological theory, by M.J. Herskovits.--Bibliography of A. Irving Hallowell (p. 417-425)

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
572
Library of Congress
GN8 .S67

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 442 p.
Number of pages
442

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5942125M
Internet Archive
contextmeaningin0000spir
LCCN
65012858
OCLC/WorldCat
2534158

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