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Cultural illness and health; essays in human adaptation.
- Title
- Cultural illness and health; essays in human adaptation. Edited by Laura Nader and Thomas W. Maretzki.
- Publication
- [Washington, American Anthropological Association, 1973]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BF698.9.C8 C89 1973 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 145 p. illus.; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Anthropological studies ; no. 9
- Uniform Title
- Anthropological studies ; no. 9.
- Subjects
- Note
- Papers given at a conference on anthropology and mental health at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Oct. 1971.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- Preface / Thomas W. Maretzki -- Introduction : the culture of health / Laura Nader -- Anthropology and mental retardation / Robert B. Edgerton -- The ethnography of crime in American society / James P. Spradley -- Ethnography and the addict / Michael Agar -- Before divorce : some comments about alienation in marriage / Paul Bohannan -- Altruistic and egoistic behavior in six cultures / John W.M. Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting -- Psychiatry and anthropology : the individual and his nexus / William Caudill -- Contributions of cultural anthropology to the study of the aged / Margaret Clark -- Tranquility for the decision-maker / E. Colson -- Mental health research and out-of-awareness cultural systems / E.T. Hall -- A sociolinguistic approach to the relations between language, society, and cultural systems / Claudia Mitchell-Kernan and Keith T. Kernan -- Cultural constructions of reality / Roy G. D'Andrade -- Primate field studies and social science / S.L. Washburn -- Epilogue / Thomas W. Maretzki.
- LCCN
- 73085813 //r912
- OCLC
- ocm00741222
- SCSB-4767952
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries