The concept and dynamics of culture / / ed. by Bernardo Bernardi.

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• MitwirkendeR: AVILA, WANDA,; BAGRAMOV, E. A.,; BELIN-MILLERON, JEAN,; BENNETT, JOHN W.,; BERNARDI, BERNARDO,; BERTHOUD, GERALD,; BIANCHI, UGO,; BURGER, HENRY G.,; FOSTER, STEPHEN WILLIAM,; FREILICH, MORRIS,; HANSON, F. ALLAN,; HANSSEN, B.,; HORVATH, TIBOR,; MARKARIAN, E. S.,; NZIMIRO, IKENNA,; PAPADOPOULLOS, THEODORE,; PENTIKÄINEN, JUHA,; RADWANSKI, PIERRE A.,; RUYLE, EUGENE E.,; SABELLI, FABRIZIO,; SENGUPTA, D.,; TOKAREV, S. A.,; VARAGNAC, A.,; VERMEERSCH, ETIENNE,; WELTE, C. R.,; WOLF, JOSEPH,; ŚARANA, GOPĀLA,
• HerausgeberIn: Bernardi, Bernardo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (630 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

• I-XII
• 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 Ηοpi Social Organization
• Religio-Anthropological Depth Research
• Human Coexistence and Culture
• Biographical Notes
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects