Introducing culture
By: [by] Ernest L. Schusky [and] T. Patrick Culbert.
Contributors: Culbert, T. Patrick, joint author.
Series: Prentice-Hall anthropology series
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Concepts and methods in the social sciences -- Anthropology and the concept of culture -- The biological nature of man. Evolution -- Mammals -- Primates -- The anthropoid apes -- The Pleistocene epoch -- The australopithecines -- Other fossil men -- Suggested readings -- The history of culture. Culture -- The work of the archeologist -- The beginnings of culture -- The Paleolithic stage -- the Mesolithic stage -- The Neolithic stage -- Civilization -- Suggested readings -- The physical characteristics of modern man. Modern physical anthropology -- The races of mankind -- Suggested readings -- The nature of culture. The method of cultural anthropology -- Language and culture -- Taxonomy of culture -- Patterning of culture -- Form, meaning, and function -- Functional theory -- Culture change -- Suggested readings -- Man and environment. Environmental determinism -- The elaboration of man’s adaptation -- Levels of adaptation -- Culture areas -- Suggested readings -- Man-to-man and man-to-group relations. The nature of social life -- Family life -- Kinship -- Kinship systems -- Large kin groupings -- Voluntary groupings -- Stratification -- Political organization -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Man and the supernatural. Magic and religion -- Sacred and secular -- Mana and taboo -- Shamans and priests -- Social evolutionary theories of religion -- Historical theories of religion -- Psychological theories of religion -- Functional anthropological theories of religion -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- A perspective of culture.