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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Langness, L. L. (Lewis L.), 1929- Study of culture. Novato, Calif. : Chandler & Sharp, c1987 (OCoLC)647409189 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
L L Langness |
| ISBN: | 0883165562 9780883165560 |
| OCLC Number: | 15015071 |
| Notes: | Includes indexes. |
| Description: | xv, 269 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: A human science of human beings -- 1. Degeneration and progress: Lewis Henry Morgan ; Edward Burnett Tylor ; James George Frazer, J. J. Bachofen, Henry Maine, and others ; Questions and problems of early Evolutionism ; Implications and Evolutionism ; Summary ; Further readings -- 2. Historicalism and diffusion: Progress and degradation ; Franz Boas ; Invention and diffusion ; Culture areas ; Problems and implications ; Superorganicism ; Summary ; Further readings -- 3. Bronislaw Malinowski ; A. R. Radcliffe-Brown ; Summary ; Further readings -- 4. American developments: Culture and personality ; Other American developments ; Modern Evolutionists ; Ethnoscience and folk models ; Summary ; Further readings -- 5. The Ethnographic present: Structuralism ; Structural Marxism ; Symbolic Anthropology ; Psychoanalytic Anthropology ; French Symbolic Anthropology ; British Symbolic Anthropology ; American Symbolic Anthropology ; Summary ; Further readings -- 6. Behavioral science and behavioral evolution: Behavioral science ; Evolution and behavior ; Paleoanthropology ; Ethology ; Cross cultural studies ; cybernetics ; Characteristics of man as an animal ; Summary ; Further readings -- |
| Series Title: | Chandler & Sharp publications in anthropology and related fields. |
| Responsibility: | L.L. Langness. |
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