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Context and meaning in cultural anthropology
Title:
Context and meaning in cultural anthropology
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Melford E. Spiro ; in honor of A. Irving Hallowell.
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Publication Information:
New York : Free Press, c1965.
Physical Description:
xxii, 442 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographic references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Raymond D. Folgelson and Melford E. Spiro -- Ethnology and social organization. Childhood among the Yakutat Tlingit / Frederica De Laguna -- Algonkian social organization / George Peter Murdock -- Religion. The self, the behavioral environment, and the theory of spirit possession / Erika Bourguignon -- Religion, death, and evolutionary adaptation / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Psychological theories of windigo "psychosis" and a preliminary application of a models approach / Raymond D. Folgelson -- Religious systems as culturally constituted defense mechanisms / Melford E. Spiro -- Social character. An agrarian "fighter" / Paul Friedrich -- An approach to the historical study of national character / Murray G. Murphey -- The life and death of a myth / Laurence Wylie

-- Cultural dynamics. A long record of Eskimos and Indians at the forest edge / J. L. Giddings -- Achievement and acculturation : a Japanese example / Dennison Nash and Louis C. Schaw -- Cultural duality and behavioral integration : the human skulls ritual among the lowland Maya of northern Guatemala / Ruben E. Reina -- Perception and cognition. How to choose a Burmese numeral classifier / Robbins Burling -- Personal names and modes of address in two oceanic societies / Ward H. Goodenough -- Driving to work / Anthony F. C. Wallace -- Projective tests. Culture and visual imagery : a comparison of Rorschach responses in eleven societies / Bert Kaplan and Richard Lawless -- Researching the perception of cultural alternatives : the instrumental activities inventory / George Spindler and Louise Spindler -- The definition of the Rorschach test situation : a cross-cultural illustration / Herbert H. Williams and Judith R. Williams -- History of anthropology. Some reflections on comparative method in anthropology / FredEggan -- Brixham Cave and the antiquity of man / Jacob W. Gruber -- A genealogy of ethnological theory / Melville J. Herskovits.
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