Man in Adaptation
Datos de la Revista
| Tipo | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISBN-13 | 9780203786598 |
| Open Library | OL18387455W |
| Total de publicaciones | 13 |
| Periodo de cobertura | 2017 - 2022 |
| Idioma | EN |
English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century
Reprinted by permission of the publishers from George C. Homans, English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Copyright ® 1941, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. George C. Homans is Professor in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University. He is the author of The Human Group, Social Behavior, and Sentiments and Activities (a collection of essays), in addition to the book from…
Steel Axes for Stone Age Australians
Reprinted from Edward H. Spicer (Ed.), Human Problems in Technological Change: A Casebook (New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 1952). Lauriston Sharp is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies and Director of the Thailand Project at Cornell University. His principal field research has been in North Africa, Australia, and Southwest Asia; his major interests are political and applied anthropology, with emphasis on comparative social organiza…
The Role of Voluntary Associations in West African Urbanization
Reprinted from American Anthropologist, 59 (1957): 579–94. The thesis expounded in this article has been elaborated in Professor Little’s West African Urbanization: A Study of Voluntary Associations in Social Change (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1965). Kenneth Little is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. His principal research has been conducted in West Africa, and he is especially interested in problems of urbani…
Types of Latin American Peasantry
Reprinted from American Anthropologist, 57 (1955): 452–70. Eric R. Wolf is Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York, Lehman College. He has a longstanding interest in the study of peasantry, with special reference to Latin America and Mediterranean Europe. He is the author of Sons of the Shaking Earth, Anthropology, Peasants, and Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
The Transition from Hunting to Horticulture in the Amazon Basin
Reprinted from Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Tokyo and Kyoto, 1968, pp. 244–248). Robert L. Carneiro is Associate Curator of South American Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, New York. He has combined field studies among the Kuikuru and Amahuaca Indians of the Amazon Basin with an interest in the role of ecological factors in the rise of complex societies. More recently,…
Man in Adaptation
Man in Adaptation
Peasant Society and the Image of Limited Good
Reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association from American Anthropologist, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1965. George M. Foster is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is interested particularly in peasant society, social factors in technological change, public health, and community development. His professional experience includes field work in Mexico and Spain and service as AID adviser in countries …
The Importance of Flux in Two Hunting Societies
Reprinted from Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore, editors, Man the Hunter (Chicago: Aldine, 1968). Copyright © 1968 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. Colin Turnbull is Professor of Anthropology, Hofstra College. Prior to assuming that post, he was a Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History. He has done extensive field research in Africa; his publications include The Forest People: A Study of the …
The City as an Anarchic System
From The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life, by Richard Sennett. Copyright © 1970 by Richard Sennett. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Richard Sennett was born in Chicago in 1943 and took his B.A. at the University of Chicago in 1964 and his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1969. He teaches sociology at Brandeis University and is director of the Urban Family Study Center and a co-director of the Cambridge Institute. Mr. Sennett b…
The Abelam Artist
Reprinted from Maurice Freedman, editor, Social Organization: Essays Presented to Raymond Firth (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1967); copyright © 1967 by Maurice Freedman. Anthony Forge is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. His formal training in anthropology was received at Cambridge. His research interests and field study include primitive art in New Guinea and kinship in London, and he has also been…
Pietas in Ancestor Worship
Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 91, pp. 166-191, 1961. Meyer Fortes was born in South Africa and received his professional degrees from the University of Cape Town and the University of London. Originally trained as a psychologist, he turned to anthropology under the influence of C. G. Seligman and Bronislaw Malinowski. He is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology and a F…
The Dynamic Adaptation of Sebei Law
Originally published by the University of California Press; reprinted by permission of The Regents of the University of California. From Sebei Law by Walter Goldschmidt, pp. 245-260. Walter Goldschmidt is Professor in the Department of Anthropology of the University of California at Los Angeles and is the holder of a Senior Scientist Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health. In addition to his work on Africa, a portion of which is repo…
Man in Adaptation
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Man in Adaptation
Man in Adaptation
Peasant Society and the Image of Limited Good
Reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association from American Anthropologist, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1965. George M. Foster is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is interested particularly in peasant society, social factors in technological change, public health, and community development. His professional experience includes field work in Mexico and Spain and service as AID adviser in countries …
The Importance of Flux in Two Hunting Societies
Reprinted from Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore, editors, Man the Hunter (Chicago: Aldine, 1968). Copyright © 1968 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. Colin Turnbull is Professor of Anthropology, Hofstra College. Prior to assuming that post, he was a Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History. He has done extensive field research in Africa; his publications include The Forest People: A Study of the …
The City as an Anarchic System
From The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life, by Richard Sennett. Copyright © 1970 by Richard Sennett. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Richard Sennett was born in Chicago in 1943 and took his B.A. at the University of Chicago in 1964 and his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1969. He teaches sociology at Brandeis University and is director of the Urban Family Study Center and a co-director of the Cambridge Institute. Mr. Sennett b…
The Abelam Artist
Reprinted from Maurice Freedman, editor, Social Organization: Essays Presented to Raymond Firth (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1967); copyright © 1967 by Maurice Freedman. Anthony Forge is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. His formal training in anthropology was received at Cambridge. His research interests and field study include primitive art in New Guinea and kinship in London, and he has also been…
Pietas in Ancestor Worship
Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 91, pp. 166-191, 1961. Meyer Fortes was born in South Africa and received his professional degrees from the University of Cape Town and the University of London. Originally trained as a psychologist, he turned to anthropology under the influence of C. G. Seligman and Bronislaw Malinowski. He is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology and a F…
The Dynamic Adaptation of Sebei Law
Originally published by the University of California Press; reprinted by permission of The Regents of the University of California. From Sebei Law by Walter Goldschmidt, pp. 245-260. Walter Goldschmidt is Professor in the Department of Anthropology of the University of California at Los Angeles and is the holder of a Senior Scientist Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health. In addition to his work on Africa, a portion of which is repo…
Man in Adaptation
English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century
Reprinted by permission of the publishers from George C. Homans, English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Copyright ® 1941, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. George C. Homans is Professor in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University. He is the author of The Human Group, Social Behavior, and Sentiments and Activities (a collection of essays), in addition to the book from…
Steel Axes for Stone Age Australians
Reprinted from Edward H. Spicer (Ed.), Human Problems in Technological Change: A Casebook (New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 1952). Lauriston Sharp is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies and Director of the Thailand Project at Cornell University. His principal field research has been in North Africa, Australia, and Southwest Asia; his major interests are political and applied anthropology, with emphasis on comparative social organiza…
The Role of Voluntary Associations in West African Urbanization
Reprinted from American Anthropologist, 59 (1957): 579–94. The thesis expounded in this article has been elaborated in Professor Little’s West African Urbanization: A Study of Voluntary Associations in Social Change (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1965). Kenneth Little is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. His principal research has been conducted in West Africa, and he is especially interested in problems of urbani…
Types of Latin American Peasantry
Reprinted from American Anthropologist, 57 (1955): 452–70. Eric R. Wolf is Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York, Lehman College. He has a longstanding interest in the study of peasantry, with special reference to Latin America and Mediterranean Europe. He is the author of Sons of the Shaking Earth, Anthropology, Peasants, and Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
The Transition from Hunting to Horticulture in the Amazon Basin
Reprinted from Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Tokyo and Kyoto, 1968, pp. 244–248). Robert L. Carneiro is Associate Curator of South American Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, New York. He has combined field studies among the Kuikuru and Amahuaca Indians of the Amazon Basin with an interest in the role of ecological factors in the rise of complex societies. More recently,…