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Classic anthropology : critical essays, 1944-1996
- Title
- Classic anthropology : critical essays, 1944-1996 / John W. Bennett ; with contributions by Leo A. Despres and Michio Nagai.
- Author
- Bennett, John W. (John William), 1915-2005.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1998.
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- Description
- xvii, 425 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Classic anthropology : an introduction -- Myth, theory, and value in cultural anthropology -- Interdisciplinary research and the concept of culture -- The micro-macro nexus in classic and post-classic anthropology -- The Plains Indian Sun Dance : Leslie Spier's historical reconstruction, and functionalist research by others -- Interpretations of Pueblo Indian culture by Laura Thompson, Esther Goldfrank, Dorothy Eggan, and others -- Early and late functional analysis : Bronislaw Malinowski's Baloma : Spirits of the Dead and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft -- A problem in social organization : the use of kinship as an organizing principle for instrumental activities -- Psychology and anthropology : modes of interface as represented in the work of F.C. Bartlett, Abram Kardiner, Ralph Linton, and Gregory Bateson -- A.L. Kroeber and the concept of culture as superorganic -- Walter W. Taylor and Americanist archaeology's search for a concept of culture -- Applied and action anthropology : problems of ideology and intervention -- The "famous lady anthropologists" : Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead -- Populist anthropology : Robert Lowie, Marvin Harris, and Clyde Kluckhohn -- Epilogue : a philosophical voice at the end of the classic era : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
- Call Number
- JFE 98-4770
- ISBN
- 1560003332 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97045618
- OCLC
- 37864612
- Author
- Bennett, John W. (John William), 1915-2005.
- Title
- Classic anthropology : critical essays, 1944-1996 / John W. Bennett ; with contributions by Leo A. Despres and Michio Nagai.
- Imprint
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1998.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- Despres, Leo A.Nagai, Michio.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 98-4770