New perspectives in cultural anthropology
By: [by] Roger M. Keesing [and] Felix M. Keesing.
Contributors: Keesing, Felix Maxwell, 1902-1961, joint author.; Keesing, Felix Maxwell, 1902-1961.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 457
Subjects: Anthropology.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 423-437.
Based on Cultural anthropology, by F. M. Keesing.
Table of contents: title: What is cultural anthropology? Anthropology as a field of knowledge -- Cultural anthropology -- Cultural anthropology and science -- Fieldwork -- Culture and people : some basic concepts. The anthropological concept of “culture” -- The relation of “culture” to “society” -- Culture and biological heritage. Man in evolutionary perspective -- Animal behavior and the nature of man -- Variation in man : race, culture, and individuality -- Language and communication. Linguistic and nonlinguistic communication in evolutionary perspective -- Conceptual problems for studying language -- The structure of languages -- Linguistic universals -- Language and culture -- Linguistic models and cultural anthropology -- Communication : a wider perspective -- The growth of culture. Available evidence on the distant past -- Man as hunter and gatherer -- Man as food producer -- The path to urban society -- Non-western peoples in the “ethnographic present” -- The structure of cultures. Cultural uniqueness and the search for universals -- Cultural diversity and cultural relativism -- Methods of cross-cultural study -- Man and environment : technology and cultural ecology. Technology and levels of social integration -- The ecology of hunters and gatherers -- The ecology of tribal food producers -- Ecology, evolution, and adaptation -- Social organization in tribal societies : kinship and descent. Social organization : some first principles -- Kinship in tribal societies -- What is kinship? -- Descent and the organization of tribal societies -- Kinship terminology -- Social organization in tribal societies : marriage and family structure. Marriage in comparative perspective -- The family in comparative perspective -- Social organization in tribal societies : beyond kinship. Community as a principle of social organization -- Sex, age, and the life cycle as organizing principles -- Voluntary, or interest, associations -- Inequality as a principle of social organization -- Determinants of social organization -- Organization of complex societies. Peasants -- The study of complex societies -- Men in urban settings -- Economic systems. What is “economic”? -- Systems of production -- Property concepts -- Modes of exchange and redistribution -- The integration of economic systems -- Political organization. Political organization from band to empire -- Political processes in changing societies -- War, politics, and the nature of man -- Social control. The forces of social conformity -- Law : a comparative view -- World view: knowledge and belief. Religion in comparative perspective -- Magic, science, and religion -- Religion and the social order -- Myth and ritual -- Cultural integration, world view, and the quest for unique design -- Culture and the individual. “Culture and personality” reconsidered -- Learning a culture -- Personality and role system -- Personality and culture change -- Stability and change. Anthropological perspectives on stability and change -- The impact of the west -- The applications of anthropology -- The historical background of anthropology -- Cultural and social evolutionism -- Historicalism -- Diffusionism -- French sociology -- Functionalism -- Configurationalism -- Culture and Personality -- The anthropological present -- The anthropological future -- Anthropology as a profession.