Anthropology today.
By: Gerald Berreman [and others], contributing consultants.
Contributors: Berreman, Gerald Duane, 1930-
Publisher: CRM Books
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Del Mar, Calif
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 565
Subjects: Anthropology
Notes: Bibliography: p. 531-541.
Table of contents: title: Science of man. Unique nature of anthropology -- New precision in research -- Holistic approach -- Relating biology to culture -- Interdisciplinary detective work -- Studies of man the animal. Evolutionary record -- Phylogenetic tree or trellis? -- Trends in physical anthropology -- Perspective on the theory of race -- Developing sociocultural views. Ethnocentrism and the noble savage -- Classical evolutionism -- Boas and the empirical reaction -- Culture and personality studies -- Rise of functionalism -- Neo-evolutionism -- Linguistics and anthropology -- Case study : digging up the past. Classification of the site -- Techniques of excavation -- Recording archaeological data -- Analysis of the artifacts -- Generalizations about life ways -- Case study : primates in the field. Formulation of research objectives -- Finding the monkeys -- Methods of survey -- Observations in the field -- Initial analysis of the data -- Case study : in the remote village. Observers and the observed -- Hello : I am your ethnographer -- If not acceptance, tolerance? -- Communication through rapport -- Case study : in a complex society. Formulating the research problem -- Participation in community life -- Analyzing the data -- Writing and publishing -- Methods in physical anthropology. Individual variation in man -- Variation among populations -- Mutation -- Natural selection -- Gene flow -- Genetic drift -- Variation between species -- Study of human differences -- Primate social behavior. Why study the primates? -- Primate behavior patterns -- Environmental adaptations -- Inside the home range -- Dominance and leadership -- Growing up to be monkeys -- Prehuman primates. Arboreal adaptation -- Prosimians -- Transition to primates -- Paleocene and Eocene prosimians -- Monkeys and apes : anthropoids -- Fossil anthropoids -- Links with the hominids -- Adaptive trends toward man -- Presapient hominids. Earliest hominids -- Early hominid life patterns -- Later presapient hominids -- Homo sapiens. What is man? -- Transition from homo erectus -- Adaptations toward homo sapiens -- Mousterian tradition -- Upper Paleolithic -- Modern man. Old genes in new containers -- Human game of numbers -- Common heritage -- Separate, unequal heritages -- Environmental cost of living -- Past in the future of man -- Methods in archaeology. Scope of archaeology -- Space-time framework -- Culture theory and archaeology -- Archaeologist in the field -- Archaeological analysis -- Paleolithic culture. Pleistocene setting -- Stage I : pebble tool cultures -- Stage II : early hunters -- Stage III : advanced hunters -- Upper Paleolithic achievement -- Decline of Paleolithic man -- Beginnings of domestication. Early centers of food production -- Approaching the evidence -- Domestication in southwest Asia -- Final Paleolithic level -- Incipient domestication level -- Primary village-farming level -- Developed village-farming level -- Questions remaining -- Rise of civilization. Civilizations of the old world -- Mesopotamian achievement -- Nile Valley of Egypt -- Eastern Mediterranean -- Indus valley -- Yellow river valley of China -- Civilizations of the new world -- Mesoamerica -- Andean area -- Primitive societies. Diversity of primitive societies -- Primitive culture areas -- Aspects of primitive society -- Economy and polity -- Ideology -- Peasant societies. Nature of peasant society -- Economics and social organization -- Kinship systems -- Political and legal institutions -- Culture flow and counterfiow -- Pain of modernization -- Complex societies. Anthropology and social action -- Study of the community -- Peasants in the modern world -- Study of institutions -- National characteristics -- Acculturation studies -- Units of complex societies -- Urban anthropology -- Applying cultural understanding -- Methods in cultural anthropology. Cultural relativism -- Holistic view -- Importance of field work -- Comparative analysis -- Theoretical concepts -- Anthropology and humanism -- Limits on cultural perspectives -- Studies of society and culture -- Recent developments -- Ethnographic field work. Going into the field -- Participant observation -- Writing the ethnography -- Ethnography and morality -- Psychological perspective. Individual character -- National character -- Formation of personality -- Socialization process -- Psychology and social change -- Cross-cultural studies -- Research into mental illness -- Cultural ecology. Approaches in cultural ecology -- Early hominid adaptation -- Hunting and gathering adaptation -- Surplus and nonsurvival goals -- Primary class-structured states -- Pastoralists and farmers -- Industrialized world -- Developing nations -- Looking toward the future -- Structural-functional analysis. Kula ring -- Thonga kinship terms -- Nuer kinship and politics -- Oedipus myth -- Abstraction process -- Language. Language structure -- Semantics -- Historical linguistics -- Language and society -- Art and society. Concepts of art and artists -- Art styles and their components -- Prehistoric arts -- Arts of civilization -- Primitive arts -- Folklore, music, and dance -- Art as cultural map -- Kinship systems. Functions of kinship -- Descent aspect of kinship -- Matrilineal systems -- Patrilineal systems -- Unilineal and double descent -- Ambilateral descent -- Alliance aspect of kinship -- Kinship and social structure -- Political systems. Behavior and public goals -- Legitimacy and coercion -- Loci of legitimacy and coercion -- Dispute settlement -- Organization of politics -- Conflict, rebellion, and revolution -- Modern political anthropology -- Economics and anthropology. Concept of economic choice -- Choices in subsistence farming -- Ethnoeconomics and marketing -- Ceremonial economics -- Entrepreneurship -- Economy and social change -- Religion. Religious universals -- Origins of religion -- Religion and social control -- Witchcraft -- Rituals of reversal -- Cyclical and noncyclical rites -- Religious movements -- Religion in advanced societies -- Social and cultural change. Paradox of social change -- Evolutionary theories -- Diffusion and innovation -- Mundurucú of Brazil -- Change in the modern world. Rate of innovation and diffusion -- Process of acculturation -- Process of modernization -- Village of Hang Mei.