Title: The study of culture /
Authors: Langness, L. L. 1929-
Publisher: Chandler & Sharp,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Ethnology History; Culture.
Contents: Introduction: A human science of human beings -- 1. Degeneration and progress: Lewis Henry Morgan ; Edward Burnett Tylor ; James George Frazer, J.J. Bachofen, Henry Maine, and others ; Questions and problems of early Evolutionism ; Implications and Evolutionism ; Summary ; Further readings -- 2. Historicalism and diffusion: Progress and degradation ; Franz Boas ; Invention and diffusion ; Culture areas ; Problems and implications ; Superorganicism ; Summary ; Further readings -- 3. Bronislaw Malinowski ; A.R. Radcliffe-Brown ; Summary ; Further readings -- 4. American developments: Culture and personality ; Other American developments ; Modern Evolutionists ; Ethnoscience and folk models ; Summary ; Further readings -- 5. The Ethnographic present: Structuralism ; Structural Marxism ; Symbolic Anthropology ; Psychoanalytic Anthropology ; French Symbolic Anthropology ; British Symbolic Anthropology ; American Symbolic Anthropology ; Summary ; Further readings -- 6. Behavioral science and behavioral evolution: Behavioral science ; Evolution and behavior ; Paleoanthropology ; Ethology ; Cross cultural studies ; cybernetics ; Characteristics of man as an animal ; Summary ; Further readings.