Research Catalog

Title

The Human experience : readings in sociocultural anthropology / edited by David H. Spain.

Publication

Homewood, Ill. : Dorsey Press, 1975.

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Details

Additional Authors

Spain, David H.

Description

xiii, 466 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

Ethnology

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 434-447.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man -- Letters from Peri-Manus, II -- A Navajo community -- Man, the talker -- Linguistics and ethnographic description -- Rappin' in the Black vernacular -- Eating Christmas in the Kalahari -- Big men and disks of shell: political finance in Melanesia -- Capital, investment, and the social structure of a pastoral nomad group I south Persia -- Peasants in the cities: a paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox -- A cross-cultural survey of some sex differences in socialization -- Ecology and personality: conclusions to a study of farmers and pastoralists in East Africa -- Religious systems as culturally constituted defense mechanisms -- The origin of the family -- Childhood association and sexual attraction: a further test of the Westermarck hypothesis -- Love, marriage, and social change: letters to the advice column of a West African newspaper -- Hyena and rabbit: a Kaguru representation of matrilineal relations -- The Vice Lord social system-roles -- Qualifications for adulthood -- Private knowledge, morality, and social classes among the Coast Salish -- Chiefs in a chiefless society: the ideology of modern Kwaio politics -- Cannibalistic revenge in Jale warfare -- Poro values and courtroom procedures in a Kpelle chiefdom -- The sound of rushing water -- Religion in an affluent society -- Santa Claus: notes on a collective representation -- The riddle of the pig -- Four Winnebago myths: a structural sketch -- Pueblo baseball; a new use for old witchcraft -- The impact of money on an African subsistence economy -- Cargo cults -- Cultural persistence among the modern Iroquois -- The great sisal scheme -- The wretched of the earth: conclusion.

ISBN

0256017085

LCCN

^^^74025810^

OCLC

• 1627075
• SCSB-10383998

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library