A scientific theory of culture and other essays
By: by B. Malinowski.
Publisher: North Carolina U.P.
Published: 1944
Language: eng
Format: h
Number of pages: 228
Table of contents: title: A scientific theory of culture (1941). Culture as the subject of scientific investigation -- A minimum definition of science for the humanist -- Concepts and methods of anthropology -- What is culture? -- Theory of organized behavior -- The concrete isolates of organized behavior -- The functional analysis of culture -- What is human nature? -- The derivation of cultural needs -- Basic needs and cultural responses -- The nature of derived needs -- The integrative imperatives of human culture -- The instrumentally implemented vital sequence -- The functional theory (1939)  -- Sir James George Frazer (1942).