Theoretical Anthropology / / David Bidney.

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

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1967]
©1967
Year of Publication:1967
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (530 p.)
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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