
Title:
The concept and dynamics of culture
Author:
AVILA, WANDA, contributor.
ISBN:
9783110807745
Edition:
Reprint 2011
Physical Description:
1 online resource (630 p.) : Num. figs.
Series:
World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
Contents:
I-XII -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The Concept of Culture -- An Analysis of the Concept of Culture -- The Concept of Culture: A New Presentation -- The Meaning of "Sociocultural" -- The Concept of Culture in the System of Modern Sciences -- A Unified Theory of Society-Field Aspect -- PART TWO: The Dynamics of Culture -- Anthropological Criteria for a Notion of Progress -- The Segregative and Integrative Functions of Culture -- Ecosystem Analogies in Cultural Ecology -- Energy and Culture -- Anthropology and "Energology" -- PART THREE: The Epistemology of Culture -- Meaning in Culture -- Do Anthropologists Explain? -- The Contribution of Cultural Anthropology to Scholarship -- Economic Anthropology and Developmental Theories -- Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology -- PART FOUR: The Systematic Study of Culture -- Study of Mans Horizon-Creation: A Perspective for Cultural Anthropology -- The Object of Ethnology -- The Concept of Integral Anthropology -- Integration Processes in Complex Societies -- Panculture: A Hominization-Derived Processual Taxonomy from Murdock's Universal Basics -- Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values -- Anthropologists and Their Terminologies -- PART FIVE: Cultural Differentiations -- Toward a Theory of American Culture -- On the Scientific Content of the "National Character" Concept -- Rethinking Ηοpi Social Organization -- Religio-Anthropological Depth Research -- Human Coexistence and Culture -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
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