Culture and biological man
Subtitle: explorations in behavioral anthropology
By: [by] Eliot D. Chapple.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Anthropology
Notes: Bibliography: p. 327-340.
Edition of 1980 published under title: The biological foundations of individuality and culture.
Table of contents: title: Biology and anthropology; title: Revolution in biology; title: Fixed action patterns; title: Ethogram; title: Measurement of fixed action patterns; title: Utility of measurement; title: Biological framework of behavior; title: Cultural universe of anthropology; title: Domain of culture; title: Ethnography of communication; title: Interaction and communication; title: Dimensions of behavior and culture; title: Utility of the dimensional approach; title: Biological clocks : the natural rhythms of behavior patterns; title: Organizing principle of rhythmicity; title: Universality of circadian rhythms; title: Properties of circadian rhythms; title: Coordination (or coupling) of individual circadian rhythms; title: Transients: changes consequent on entrainment; title: Development of rhythms in the young; title: Individual differences in the new born; title: Species differences in activity rhythms; title: Contributions of the shorter rhythms; title: Biological rhythms in communication; title: More general implications of biological rhythms; title: Biological rhythms and personality; title: Basic elements of personality; title: Observation of the interaction rhythm; title: Definition of complementary personalities; title: Circadian constraints on interaction rhythms; title: Primary variables in unsynchronized interaction; title: Nonresponse variables; title: Interruptive variables; title: Initiative and dominance variables as components of personality; title: Initiative and dominance variables in studies of groups; title: Biological basis of emotional behavior; title: Emotions and their physiological roots; title: Autonomic nervous system and emotion; title: Mutual relations of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems; title: “emotional—interactional” complex; title: Emotional control through the Papez circuit; title: Rates of emotional reactivity; title: Neurophysiological bases of emotional behavior patterns; title: Control of velocity of arousal; title: Rhythms of emotional patterns; title: Terminological difficulties; title: Scope of emotional states; title: Emotional-interactional patterning of temperament; title: Reactions of complementarity; title: Cybernetic aspects of synchronization; title: Properties of asynchrony; title: Synchronizers as interpersonal stresses; title: Emotional components of stresses; title: Stress of nonresponse (withdrawal); title: Temperamental reactions of quickness; title: Transient reactions to nonresponse; title: Effects of breaking off interaction; title: Grief reactions; title: Dominance and other major temperamental reaction patterns; title: Transient reactions to dominance; title: Reactions to the stress of encountering a new person or situation; title: Variegations in temperamental reactions; title: Latency reactions; title: Dominance-cycling reactions; title: Temperamental variegations of the patterns; title: Time factors in the adjustment process; title: Individual as an interactional system; title: Concept of equilibrium; title: Impact of the internal rhythms; title: Cumulative consequences of daily interaction; title: Transitive character of interactional events; title: Individual as an interactional system in equilibrium; title: Long-term changes in the equilibrium state; title: Nonlethal shifts in equilibrium systems; title: Maturation and the crises of life; title: Ultimate direction; title: Origins of personality and temperament patterns; title: Controversial background of heredity and environment in human studies; title: Genetics of behavior; title: Breeding for activity level; title: Natural patterns of behavior; title: Physiological basis of natural patterns; title: Genetic aspects of fixed action (and interaction) patterns; title: Genes as limits on behavior modifiability; title: Genetic potential for individual variability; title: Environmental differentiation; title: Beginnings of interaction patterns; title: Effects of major environmental stress in monkeys; title: Human parallel of deprivation studies; title: Stages or critical periods in development; title: Human plasticity under environmental influence; title: Introduction to the cultural dimensions; title: Constraints of distance on interactional probabilities; title: Scales for biological distance; title: Directional mechanisms in spacing; title: Effects of gaze on interaction rhythms; title: Relationships of individuals to space (territoriality); title: Possession and maintenance of territories; title: Territories held by groups; title: Internal stabilization of interaction in group territoriality; title: Personal space; title: Autonomic disturbances in crowding (minimal distances); title: Crowding among humans; title: Invasion of privacy; title: Bonds of distance; title: Cultural dimension of space; title: Experiential influences of space; title: Dimensional aspects of spatial distance; title: Influence of physical environment on interaction; title: Space and the size of “groups”; title: Groups as spatial and interactional units; title: Extension of definition of a group and other cultural dimensions; title: Interactional constraints of architecture; title: Dimensional uses of distance; title: Organizing properties of space; title: Land-use architecture; title: Extensions of land-use architecture to the country and the world; title: Potentials of building and land-use architectures; title: Dimensional constraints of cultural sequences; title: Biological foundations of sequencing; title: Cultural action sequence; title: Evolutionary implications of the division of labor; title: Cultural sequencing as the organizing factor in teamwork; title: Boundaries of cultural sequences; title: Interplay of spatial distance and cultural sequencing; title: Factors in the development of the division of labor; title: Rise of specialization; title: Interactional properties of specialization; title: Bridging the discontinuities between cultural sequences; title: Dimensional consequences; title: Organization of institutions; title: Some problems of labeling; title: Organizing properties of interaction patterns; title: Parallels among the lower primates; title: Sets and the dimension of spatial distance; title: Sets and the dimension of cultural sequencing; title: Formal definition of an interactional set; title: Countervailing sets; title: Interactional properties of sets; title: Complementarity in group events; title: Growth of organizational structures; title: Implications of quantitative differences between sets within an institution; title: Directional shifts in family organization through preponderant sets; title: Probabilities of interaction within institutions; title: Constraints of communication patterning; title: Biological properties of communication; title: Evocative properties of symbols; title: Formation of symbols; title: Derivation of symbols from contexts of situation; title: Biological factors in symbol selection; title: Cumulative properties of symbols; title: Rudimentary scale of symbolic impact; title: Symbolic influences on interaction; title: Impact of language on interaction; title: Personality and temperamental limitations on symbolic efficacy; title: Cultural elaboration of interaction forms (roles); title: Roles and interaction forms; title: Dimensional elements of interaction forms; title: Limitations of role as a descriptive concept; title: Development of interaction forms; title: Significant types of interaction forms; title: Incompatibility of interaction forms and personalities; title: Natural selection of personalities within cultures; title: Implications of cultural diversity for personality; title: Multiple uses of single interaction forms; title: Cultural maximizing of interactional probabilities; title: Cultural dimensions and interactional crises; title: Life crises; title: Rites of passages; title: Ritualization; title: Rites of passage today; title: Institutional or communal crises; title: Rites of intensification; title: Ritualization; title: Idiosyncratic aspects of symbols; title: Symbolic equivalence and interaction; title: Biological properties of rites and symbols; title: Rituals, symbols, and the “secular society”; title: Shape of things to come.