Theoretical Anthropology / / David Bidney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bidney, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1967]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 1967
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (530 p.)

Examines critically the literature dealing with the concept of culture from the perspective of the philosophy and logic of science.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Permissions and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Retrospects and Prospects: The Art of Culture and The Scientific Study of Culture -- Preface -- 1. The Problem of Man and the Human World -- 2. The Concept of Culture and Some Cultural Fallacies1 -- 3. Ethnology and Psychology -- 4. Society and Culture -- 5. Human Nature and the Cultural Process1 -- 6. Metaanthropology and Anthropological Science1 -- 7. Evolutionary Ethnology and Natural History -- 8. Cultural Dynamics and the Quest for Origins -- 9. Culture History, the Humanities, and Natural Science -- 10. The Concept of Myth1 -- 11. The Concept of Personality in Modern Ethnology1 -- 12. The Concept of Cultural Crisis1 -- 13. Modes of Cultural Integration -- 14. Normative Culture and the Categories of Value -- 15. Ideology and Power in the Strategy of World Peace1 -- 16. The Problem of Freedom and Authority in Cultural Perspective1 -- APPENDIX. The Contribution of A. L. Kroeber to Contemporary Anthropology -- Bibliography -- Additional Bibliography -- Index