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Context and meaning in cultural anthropology. edited by Melford E. Spiro. In honor of A. Irving Hallowell

Spiro, Melford E 1965

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  • Title:
    Context and meaning in cultural anthropology. edited by Melford E. Spiro. In honor of A. Irving Hallowell
  • Author: Spiro, Melford E
  • Subjects: Anthropology;
    Anthropology -- essays
  • Description: --Cultural dynamics. A long record of Eskimos and Indians at the forest edge, by J.L. Giddings. Achievement and acculturation: a Japanese example, by D. Nash and L.C. Schaw. Cultural duality and behavioral integration: the human skulls ritual among the lowland Maya of northern Guatemala, by R.E. Reina.--Perception and cognition. How to choose a Burmese numeral classifier, by R. Burling. Personal names and modes of address in two oceanic societies, by W.H. Goodenough. Driving to work, by A.F.C. Wallace.--Projective tests. Culture and visual imagery: a comparison of Rorschach responses in eleven societies, by B. Kaplan and R. Lawless. Researching the perception of cultural alternatives: the instrumental activities inventory, by G. Spindler and L. Spindler. The definition of the Rorschach test situation: a cross-cultural illustration, by H.H. Williams and J.R. Williams
    --History of anthropology. Some reflections on comparative method in anthropology, by F. Eggan. Brixham Cave and the antiquity of man, by J.W. Gruber. A genealogy of ethnological theory, by M.J. Herskovits.--Bibliography of A. Irving Hallowell (p. 417-425)
    Includes bibliographies.
    Introduction, by R.D. Folgelson and M.E. Spiro Ethnology and social organization. Childhood among the Yakutat Tlingit, by F. De Laguna. Algonkian social organization, by G.P. Murdock Religion. The self, the behavioral environment, and the theory of spirit possession, by E. Bourguignon. Religion, death, and evolutionary adaptation, by T. Dobzhansky. Psychological theories of windigo "psychosis" and a preliminary application of a models approach, by R.D. Folgelson. Religious systems as culturally constituted defense mechanisms, by M.E. Spiro Social character. An agrarian "fighter," by P. Friedrich. An approach to the historical study of national character, by M.G. Murphey. The life and death of a myth, by L. Wylie
  • Publisher: New York : Free Press, 1965
  • Creation Date: 1965
  • Format: xxii, 442 p. : illus., port. ; 24 cm
  • Language: English
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