Classic anthropology : critical essays, 1944-1996 / John W. Bennett with contributions by Leo A. Despres and Michio Nagai.

Author/creator Bennett, John W.
Other author Despres, Leo A.
Other author Nagai, Michio.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, ©1998.
Descriptionxvii, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Anthropology.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 97045618
ISBN1560003332 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN25 .B46 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold