Classic Anthropology: Critical Essays, 1944-1996"Bennett has produced a personalised and user-friendly, if idiosyncratic, critique of North American anthropology that is surprisingly contemporary in framing and language. Readers will quibble with many interpretations, but Bennett's qualms about anthropolgy, past and present, deserve answers."-Anthropological Forum |
Contents
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Myth Theory and Value in Cultural Anthropology | 29 |
Interdisciplinary Research and the Concept of Culture | 49 |
The MicroMacro Nexus in Classic and PostClassic Anthropology | 69 |
The Plains Indian Sun Dance Leslie Spiers Historical Reconstruction and Functionalist Research by Others | 101 |
Interpretations of Pueblo Indian Culture by Laura Thompson Esther Goldfrank Dorothy Eggan and Others | 129 |
Early and Late Functional Analysis Bronislaw Malinowskis Baloma Spirits of the Dead and Clyde Kluckhohns Navaho Witchcraft | 167 |
A Problem in Social Organization The Use of Kinship as an Organizing Principle for Instrumental Activities | 199 |
Walter W Taylor and Americanist Archaeologys Search for a Concept of Culture | 287 |
Applied and Action Anthropology Problems of Ideology and Intervention | 315 |
The Famous Lady Anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead | 359 |
Populist Anthropology Robert Lowie Marvin Harris and Clyde Kluckhohn | 379 |
Epilogue A Philosophical Voice at the End of the Classic Era Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | 401 |
Some Afterwords | 413 |
Index of Names | 415 |
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Psychology and Anthropology Modes of Interface as Represented in the Work of F C Bartlett Abram Kardiner Ralph Linton and Gregory Bateson | 219 |
A L Kroeber and the Concept of Culture as Superorganic | 259 |
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Classic Anthropology: Critical Essays, 1944-1996 John William Bennett,Leo A. Despres,Michio Nagai No preview available - 1998 |
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