Screen LibraryThe concept and dynamics of culture /
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©1978 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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World anthropology
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110807745 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110807745.jpg |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (630pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110807745 |
| Index Number: | GN357 |
| CLC: | C912.4 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The Concept of Culture -- An Analysis of the Concept of Culture -- The Concept of Culture: A New Presentation -- The Meaning of "Sociocultural" -- The Concept of Culture in the System of Modern Sciences -- A Unified Theory of Society-Field Aspect -- PART TWO: The Dynamics of Culture -- Anthropological Criteria for a Notion of Progress -- The Segregative and Integrative Functions of Culture -- Ecosystem Analogies in Cultural Ecology -- Energy and Culture -- Anthropology and "Energology" -- PART THREE: The Epistemology of Culture -- Meaning in Culture -- Do Anthropologists Explain? -- The Contribution of Cultural Anthropology to Scholarship -- Economic Anthropology and Developmental Theories -- Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology -- PART FOUR: The Systematic Study of Culture -- Study of Mans Horizon-Creation: A Perspective for Cultural Anthropology -- The Object of Ethnology -- The Concept of Integral Anthropology -- Integration Processes in Complex Societies -- Panculture: A Hominization-Derived Processual Taxonomy from Murdock's Universal Basics -- Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values -- Anthropologists and Their Terminologies -- PART FIVE: Cultural Differentiations -- Toward a Theory of American Culture -- On the Scientific Content of the "National Character" Concept -- Rethinking pi Social Organization -- Religio-Anthropological Depth Research -- Human Coexistence and Culture -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects |