Explorations in cultural anthropology
Subtitle: essays in honor of George Peter Murdock
By: edited by Ward W. Goodenough.
Contributors: Murdock, George Peter, 1897-
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 635
Subjects: Ethnology
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
--Law and societal structure among the Nunamiut Eskimo, by L. Pospisil.--The self-management of cultures, by J.M. Roberts.--Archeological approaches to cultural evolution, by I. Rouse.--Land and its manipulation among the Haitian peasantry, by F.W. Underwood.--Warfare and the integration of Crow Indian culture, by F.W. Voget.--Effects of climate on certain cultural practices, by J.W.M. Whiting.--The aboriginal location of the Kadohadacho and related tribes, by S. Williams.--Archeology and the "patriarchal age" of the Old Testament, by M.L. Zigmond.--Bibliography of George Peter Murdock (p. 599-603)
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by W.H. Goodenough.; title: Ethnogenealogical method, by H.C. Conklin.; title: Social structure of Santa Cruz Island, by W. Davenport.; title: Commercialization and political change in American Samoa, by M. Ember.; title: A structural description of Subanun "religious behavior," by C.O. Frake.; title: Semantic structure and social structure: an instance from Russian, by P. Friedrich.; title: Culture and logical process, by T. Gladwin.; title: The Calusa: a stratified, nonagricultural society (with notes on sibling marriage) by J.M. Goggin.; title: Componential analysis of Könkämä Lapp kinship terminology, by W.H. Goodenough.; title: The Proto Central Algonquian kinship system, by C.F. Hockett.; title: Money, ecology, and acculturation among the Shipibo of Peru, by H. Hoffmann.; title: Survival of a cultural focus, by J.J. Honigmann.; title: Anthropology and non-Euro-American anthropologists: the situation in Indonesia, by Koentjaraningrat.; title: Snake-handling cult of the American Southeast, by W. LaBarre.; title: A household survey of economic goods on Romonum Island, Truk, by F.M. LeBar.; title: A formal analysis of Crow- and Omaha-type kinship terminologies, by F.G. Lounsbury.