Alexander Alland
Biographic Data
| ID | 76025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Alland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Alland |
| SIGNATURE | ALLAND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Catalunya, One Nation, Two States: An Ethnographic Study of Nonviolent Resistance to Assimilation
The How and Why of This Book
Anthropology is a peculiar subject. Unlike the other “social sciences” it lies at the crossroad of three intellectual pursuits: science, social science, and the humanities. Anthropologists engaged in fieldwork, although obliged to treat data as objectively as possible, must maintain a complicated set of social and personal relations with native informants. Thus, by the very nature of the anthropologist’s task, a certain degree of subjectivity is …
Culture in Practice: Selected Essays
Culture in Practice: Selected Essays. Marshall Sahlins. New York: Zone Books, 2000. 646 pp
High Art down Home: An Economic Ethnography of a Local Art Market. Stuart Plattner
Don't Cut the Pi Yet
Fashionable Nonsense: Science. Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. New York: Picador USA, 1998.317 pp
Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World
Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World. Jeremy MacClancy. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1997.254 pp
Ethnographers in Rural France: Descendants de chouans: Histoire et culture populaire dans la Vendée contemporaine . Bernadette Bucher.: Les colloques ethnologiques de Bordeaux. L'ethnologie à Bordeaux…
The Eternal Triangle: Race, Class, and IQ The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Richard J. Herrnstein , Charles Murray
Playing with Time: Art and Performance in Central Mali. Mary Jo Arnoldi
Primitive Art in Civilized Places
Primitive Art in Civilized Places. Sally Price. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989/1991. 145 pp., b/w illustrations, bibliography. $19.95 (cloth), $10.95 (paper
Human Nature: Darwin's View
Biocultural Adaptation and Medical Anthropology
Human Nature: Darwin's View
Looking Backward: An Autocritique
A retrospective and critical review of my own work in medical anthropology, I examine here what I now believe are the strengths and weaknesses of an ecological approach to the discipline. Although of major importance, the etic view embodied in the ecological perspective is not sufficient for a full understanding of cultural and biological adaptations to disease. Medical anthropology should remain true to its roots in the mother discipline by cont…
Rituel masculin de procréation et symbolisme phallique
Alland Alexander Jr. Rituel masculin de procréation et symbolisme phallique. In: L'Homme, 1985, tome 25 n°94. pp. 37-55
Playing with Form: Children Draw in Six Cultures
Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations
Human ecology is ultimately part of a general theory of society. This is the argument developed here by Roy Ellen, whose exploration of the interplay between social organization and ecology in small-scale subsistence systems has direct bearings both on the investigation of human environmental relations in general and on contemporary social theory. He argues that while ecological study of non-industrial societies cannot be elevated to the status o…
General and Theoretical: The Anthropological Imagination. Muriel Dimen-Schein
The Construction of Reality and Unreality in Japanese Theatre
The traditional performing arts of Japan (the various Gaku, Noh, Bunraku, and Kabuki) are built on a set of contrasts between understatement and exaggeration; between distance and immediacy. Both setting and performance exploit such negatives as stillness, distance, absence and separation, but these occur against a background of opulence ranging from the elaborate Noh costumes to the technical magic of the Kabuki stage, and the lifelike movements…
Museum Exhibit: Ice Age Art. American Museum of Natural History
General and Theoretical: The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology. Marshall Sahlins
Human Diversity
Adaptation
The subject of this paper is adaptation. I shall frame my discussion in terms of three topics which have nagged anthropology since its beginning. These topics are: 1. the role of biogenetic factors in cultural behavior; 2. the relation between behavioral systems and the external or natural environment; 3. the relation between mind, behavior, and ecological adaptation. I hope to show that these three topics reduce to a single theme when they are c…
Why Not Spencer
This paper is a response to Carneiro's contention that the theory of evolution proposed by Herbert Spencer is similar, and in some respects superior, to Darwin's. An attempt is made to show that Spencer maintained a teleological orientation toward the process of evolution, whereas Darwinian theory destroyed that teleology by noting the independence of organismic variation and natural selection. The roles which Spencer assigned to the environment …
The Human Imperative
Adaptation in cultural evolution: An Approach to Medical Anthropology.
Culture in Practice: Selected Essays
Culture in Practice: Selected Essays. Marshall Sahlins. New York: Zone Books, 2000. 646 pp
Medical Anthropology and the Study of Biological and Cultural Adaptation1
Adaptation
The subject of this paper is adaptation. I shall frame my discussion in terms of three topics which have nagged anthropology since its beginning. These topics are: 1. the role of biogenetic factors in cultural behavior; 2. the relation between behavioral systems and the external or natural environment; 3. the relation between mind, behavior, and ecological adaptation. I hope to show that these three topics reduce to a single theme when they are c…
Looking Backward: An Autocritique
A retrospective and critical review of my own work in medical anthropology, I examine here what I now believe are the strengths and weaknesses of an ecological approach to the discipline. Although of major importance, the etic view embodied in the ecological perspective is not sufficient for a full understanding of cultural and biological adaptations to disease. Medical anthropology should remain true to its roots in the mother discipline by cont…
Playing with Form: Children Draw in Six Cultures
Don't Cut the Pi Yet
Fashionable Nonsense: Science. Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. New York: Picador USA, 1998.317 pp
Possession' in a Revivalistic Negro Church
The Eternal Triangle: Race, Class, and IQ The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Richard J. Herrnstein , Charles Murray
Primitive Art in Civilized Places
Primitive Art in Civilized Places. Sally Price. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989/1991. 145 pp., b/w illustrations, bibliography. $19.95 (cloth), $10.95 (paper
Biocultural Adaptation and Medical Anthropology
Cultural evolution: The Darwinian model
(1972). Cultural evolution: The Darwinian model. Social Biology: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 227-239
Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World
Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World. Jeremy MacClancy. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1997.254 pp
The Construction of Reality and Unreality in Japanese Theatre
The traditional performing arts of Japan (the various Gaku, Noh, Bunraku, and Kabuki) are built on a set of contrasts between understatement and exaggeration; between distance and immediacy. Both setting and performance exploit such negatives as stillness, distance, absence and separation, but these occur against a background of opulence ranging from the elaborate Noh costumes to the technical magic of the Kabuki stage, and the lifelike movements…
Why Not Spencer
This paper is a response to Carneiro's contention that the theory of evolution proposed by Herbert Spencer is similar, and in some respects superior, to Darwin's. An attempt is made to show that Spencer maintained a teleological orientation toward the process of evolution, whereas Darwinian theory destroyed that teleology by noting the independence of organismic variation and natural selection. The roles which Spencer assigned to the environment …
Physical: The Imperial Animal. Lionel Tiger and Robin FOX
Portrait of New York
Portrait of New York. By Felix Riesenberg and Alexander Alland. (New York: Macmillan Co., 1939. xvi + 213 pp. Illustrations. $5.00.) Get access Harold U. Faulkner Harold U. Faulkner Smith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 26, Issue 3, December 1939, Page 429, https://doi.org/10.2307/1916498 Published: 01 December 1939
Possession' in a Revivalistic Negro Church
Residence, Domicile, and Descent Groups among the Abron of the Ivory Coast
Jr. Abron Witchcraft and Social Structure
Alland Alexander. Jr. Abron Witchcraft and Social Structure. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 5, n°20, 1965. pp. 495-502
Medical Anthropology and the Study of Biological and Cultural Adaptation1
History and Geography of the Most Important Diseases Erwin H. Ackerknecht Preface by George Rosen
The Bacteriocidal Properties of the Cola Nut: A Negative Result
The biology of human adaptability
Evolution and Human Behaviour
Adaptation in cultural evolution: An Approach to Medical Anthropology.
Evolution and Human Behaviour
Physical Anthropology: The Dawn Warriors: Man's Evolution Toward Peace. Robert Bigelow
Cultural evolution: The Darwinian model
(1972). Cultural evolution: The Darwinian model. Social Biology: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 227-239
C'est ainsi que faisaient nos grands-pères ». Enquête en ethno-ignorance
Alland Alexander Jr. « C'est ainsi que faisaient nos grands-pères ». Enquête en ethno-ignorance. In: L'Homme, 1972, tome 12 n°3. pp. 111-118
Human Diversity
The Human Imperative
Physical: The Imperial Animal. Lionel Tiger and Robin FOX
Why Not Spencer
This paper is a response to Carneiro's contention that the theory of evolution proposed by Herbert Spencer is similar, and in some respects superior, to Darwin's. An attempt is made to show that Spencer maintained a teleological orientation toward the process of evolution, whereas Darwinian theory destroyed that teleology by noting the independence of organismic variation and natural selection. The roles which Spencer assigned to the environment …
Human Diversity
Adaptation
The subject of this paper is adaptation. I shall frame my discussion in terms of three topics which have nagged anthropology since its beginning. These topics are: 1. the role of biogenetic factors in cultural behavior; 2. the relation between behavioral systems and the external or natural environment; 3. the relation between mind, behavior, and ecological adaptation. I hope to show that these three topics reduce to a single theme when they are c…
General and Theoretical: The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology. Marshall Sahlins
The Construction of Reality and Unreality in Japanese Theatre
The traditional performing arts of Japan (the various Gaku, Noh, Bunraku, and Kabuki) are built on a set of contrasts between understatement and exaggeration; between distance and immediacy. Both setting and performance exploit such negatives as stillness, distance, absence and separation, but these occur against a background of opulence ranging from the elaborate Noh costumes to the technical magic of the Kabuki stage, and the lifelike movements…
Museum Exhibit: Ice Age Art. American Museum of Natural History
General and Theoretical: The Anthropological Imagination. Muriel Dimen-Schein
Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations
Human ecology is ultimately part of a general theory of society. This is the argument developed here by Roy Ellen, whose exploration of the interplay between social organization and ecology in small-scale subsistence systems has direct bearings both on the investigation of human environmental relations in general and on contemporary social theory. He argues that while ecological study of non-industrial societies cannot be elevated to the status o…
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