The Possibilities of charting modern life : a symposium for ethnological research about modern time /

Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series, Volume 13: The Possibilities of Charting Modern Life presents the proceedings of the symposium on Anthropological Research on the Present, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 7-11, 1967. This book discusses the greater dependence of culture on centr...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology; Nordic Council for Anthropological Research
Group Author: Erixon, Sigurd Emanuel, 1888-1968; Arwidsson, Greta, 1906; Hvarfner, Harald
Published: Pergamon Press
Publisher Address: Oxford, New York,
Publication Dates: [1970, 1969]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Swedish
Edition: [1st ed.].
Series: Wenner-Gren Center international symposium series, v. 13
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080133089
Summary: Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series, Volume 13: The Possibilities of Charting Modern Life presents the proceedings of the symposium on Anthropological Research on the Present, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 7-11, 1967. This book discusses the greater dependence of culture on central control and influences from outside.
Item Description: A symposium of the Nordic Council for Anthropological Research, held at the Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm, Mar. 7-11, 1967.
Translation by Donald Burton and Matt T. Salo.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages) portrait.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780080133089
0080133088
Index Number: GN3
CLC: C912.4
Contents: Sigurd Erixon : in memoriam / John Granlund -- Ethnological investigation of the present / Sigurd Erixon -- Functional theory in the light of Tuareg culture / Johannes Nicolaisen -- Applied ethnology as an example of ethnological research on the present / George Nellemann -- The traditional sex roles in a changing social structure / Anna-Britta Hellbom -- Investigation of a village in Norrbotten, 1963-4 / Anna-Maja Nyle n -- Frontier research in Tornedalen / Harald Hvarfner and Asko Vilkuna -- Report of an inter-Nordic joint scientific research plan : insurance in connection with the childre