The science of man in the world crisis
By: edited by Ralph Linton ...
Publisher: Columbia Univ. Press
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
Subjects: Anthropology; Human beings; Race relations; Social psychology
Notes: Bibliographical foot-notes.
The colonial crisis and the future, by Raymond Kennedy. -- The problem of minority groups, by Louis Wirth. -- Applied anthropology in colonial administration, by F. M. Keesing. -- Some considerations of Indianist policy, by Manuel Gamio. -- Techniques of community study and analysis as applied to modern civilized societies, by C. C. Taylor. -- The acquisition of new social habits, by John Dollard. -- Communications research and international coöperation, by P. F. Lazarsfeld and Genevieve Knupfer. -- Nationalism, internationalism, and the war, by Grayson Kirk.
Table of contents: title: The scope and aims of anthropology, by Ralph Linton.; title: Society and biological man, by H. L. Shapiro.; title: The concept of race, by W. M. Krogman.; title: Racial psychology, by Otto Klineberg.; title: The concept of culture, by Clyde Kluckholm and W. H. Kelly.; title: The concept of basic personality structure as an operational tool in the social sciences, by Abram Kardiner.; title: The common denominator of cultures, by G. P. Murdock.; title: The processes of cultural change, by M. J. Herskovits.; title: Socio-psychological aspects of acculturation, by A. I. Hallowell.; title: Present world conditions in cultural perspective, by Ralph Linton.; title: The present state of world resources, by H. A. Meyerhoff.; title: Population problems, by Karl Sax.; title: The changing American Indian, by J. H. Steward.