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How culture works

Title: How culture works / Paul Bohannan.
Author: Bohannan, Paul.
Publication: New York : Free Press, [1995]

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Description

ix, 217 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207) and index.

Contents

pt. I. Culture in the Natural World. 1. Matter, Life, and Culture. 2. A Model of the Human Animal. 3. What Culture Does to Society I: Culturized Animal Behavior. 4. What Culture Does to Society II: Human Social Organization -- pt. II. Cultural Dynamics. 5. Chains: Trajectories and Cycles. 6. Transformation and Recontexting. 7. Pattern and Turbulence. 8. What Culture Change Involves. 9. Innovations and Cultural Cusps. 10. Disasters and Cultural Traps. 11. Cultural Dissonance -- pt. III. Working With Culture. 12. Beyond Fieldwork. 13. Simulation. 14. Some Lock-ins. 15. Visions and Scenarios.

ISBN

0029045053
9780029045053

LCCN

94031733

OCLC

ocm30914882
30914882
SCSB-8802939

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library