Martin Orans
Biographic Data
| ID | 85114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Orans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Orans |
| SIGNATURE | ORANS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sex and Hoax in Samoa
Who's Talking about Intercourse
Cultural/Ethnology: Kwaio Religion: The Living and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society. Roger M. Keesing
Residence and Descent Is Hyperdiffusional
Zucker's (1976) test for Galton's problem leads him to claim that the association between patrilocality and patrilineality is "hyperdiffusional.' We critically examine his test, and present detailed evidence of a variety of tests vripporting the lawful relation between residence and descent. We offer also some deductive arguments on the effect and the measurement of diffusion, together with some hypothetical examples showing how sev eral of the p…
Ecology, Evolution, and the Search for Cultural Origins: The Question of Islamic Pig Prohibition [and Comments and Reply]
This paper examines the ecological explanation offered by Marvin Harris for the origin of pig prohibition in Islam, using the case to evaluate the functional-ecological paradigm and its treatment of cultural origins. Five majorpoints are addressed. First, a survey of the biological literature reveals that functional-ecological theory and evolutionary theory are distinct, but related. While functional ecology explains how systems work, evolutionar…
From Hindu Kush to Sri Lanka and the State of the Art
The Hill of Flutes: Life, Love and Poetry in Tribal India. W. G. Archer. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.Structural Approaches to South India Studies. Harry M. Buck and Glenn E. Yocum, eds. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: Wilson Books, 1974.Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society: Religious Alignments in the Hindu Kush. Robert Leroy Canfield. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan No. 50. 1973.Elite…
More on Solutions to Galton's Problem
Situational Logic, Social Structure, and Highland Burma [and Comments and Reply]
The theoretical gap between micro and macro levels of sociological analysis is handled by a concept set that integrates normative and transactional analyses of social phenomena. The concept set of situational logic-which refers to an actor's location in social structure and access to power and resources-when combined with equilibrium analysis, provides the necessary tools to comprehend how social systems operate. Political Systems of Highland Bur…
On Z Factors
On Critical Appraisal of Solutions to Galton's Problem
Mighty Sifts: A Critical Appraisal of Solutions to Galton's Problem and a Partial Solution [and Comments and Replies]
Galton's problem arises from historical connection between societies, which makes the canon of statistical independence inapplicable. The resulting indeterminacy of sample size renders standard tests of statistical significance also inapplicable. In addition, replication might bias results. Seven solutions to Galton's problem have been previously offered, and we have found all of them invalid. Three of them suffer from what we have termed the "sy…
Ethnology: The Portrait of Mahali Economy in Midnapur. Syamalkanti Sengupta
Domesticating the Functional Dragon: An Analysis of Piddocke's Potlatch1
This work endeavors to clarify the form of the functional argument so that empirical verification may be facilitated. Piddocke's functional interpretation of the potlatch is examined in detail as a type case; other notable functional arguments with somewhat varying forms are also considered. Lastly, analysis is provided of the universal subsistence form of the functional argument
Society in India . David G. Mandelbaum
Modernization and Development: From Zamindar to Ballot Box: Community Change in a North Indian Market Town. Richard G. Fox
Orans' Reply to Ferreira
The Kingdom of the Young: Abridged from 'The Muria and Their Ghotul
General and Ethnology: Land Tenure in Village Ceylon: A Sociological and Historical Study. Gananath Obeyesekere
Ethnology: Society at the Time of the Buddha. Narendra Wagle
Religion and Myth: Totemism in India. J ohn V. F erreira
The Andaman Islanders
Maximizing in Jajmaniland: A Model of Caste Relations
Insofar as it may be regarded as a purely logicomathematical system, lacking empirical content, economic theory may, by appropriate empirical interpretation, be applied to domains quite apart from the market. Here such use yields a model of caste or jajmani relations. The chief assumptions of the model regarding the stability of a caste system are the following: (1) it requires a high concentration of political power; (2) it requires "prices" tha…
The Santal: A Tribe in Search of a Great Tradition
The Santal: A Tribe in Search of a Great Tradition
Surplus
Ecology, Evolution, and the Search for Cultural Origins: The Question of Islamic Pig Prohibition [and Comments and Reply]
This paper examines the ecological explanation offered by Marvin Harris for the origin of pig prohibition in Islam, using the case to evaluate the functional-ecological paradigm and its treatment of cultural origins. Five majorpoints are addressed. First, a survey of the biological literature reveals that functional-ecological theory and evolutionary theory are distinct, but related. While functional ecology explains how systems work, evolutionar…
Mighty Sifts: A Critical Appraisal of Solutions to Galton's Problem and a Partial Solution [and Comments and Replies]
Galton's problem arises from historical connection between societies, which makes the canon of statistical independence inapplicable. The resulting indeterminacy of sample size renders standard tests of statistical significance also inapplicable. In addition, replication might bias results. Seven solutions to Galton's problem have been previously offered, and we have found all of them invalid. Three of them suffer from what we have termed the "sy…
Domesticating the Functional Dragon: An Analysis of Piddocke's Potlatch1
This work endeavors to clarify the form of the functional argument so that empirical verification may be facilitated. Piddocke's functional interpretation of the potlatch is examined in detail as a type case; other notable functional arguments with somewhat varying forms are also considered. Lastly, analysis is provided of the universal subsistence form of the functional argument
Surplus
The Santal: A Tribe in Search of a Great Tradition
The Santal: A Tribe in Search of a Great Tradition
Sex and Hoax in Samoa
Maximizing in Jajmaniland: A Model of Caste Relations
Insofar as it may be regarded as a purely logicomathematical system, lacking empirical content, economic theory may, by appropriate empirical interpretation, be applied to domains quite apart from the market. Here such use yields a model of caste or jajmani relations. The chief assumptions of the model regarding the stability of a caste system are the following: (1) it requires a high concentration of political power; (2) it requires "prices" tha…
More on Solutions to Galton's Problem
On Z Factors
The Sickle-Cell Gene: Migration Versus Selection
Residence and Descent Is Hyperdiffusional
Zucker's (1976) test for Galton's problem leads him to claim that the association between patrilocality and patrilineality is "hyperdiffusional.' We critically examine his test, and present detailed evidence of a variety of tests vripporting the lawful relation between residence and descent. We offer also some deductive arguments on the effect and the measurement of diffusion, together with some hypothetical examples showing how sev eral of the p…
Situational Logic, Social Structure, and Highland Burma [and Comments and Reply]
The theoretical gap between micro and macro levels of sociological analysis is handled by a concept set that integrates normative and transactional analyses of social phenomena. The concept set of situational logic-which refers to an actor's location in social structure and access to power and resources-when combined with equilibrium analysis, provides the necessary tools to comprehend how social systems operate. Political Systems of Highland Bur…
On Critical Appraisal of Solutions to Galton's Problem
The Sickle-Cell Gene: Migration Versus Selection
A Tribal People in an Industrial Setting
HIS is a report from fieldwork in progress on an Indian tribe, the Santal, in the industrial setting of Jamshedpur, site of the largest and earliest industrial producer of iron and steel in India, as well as of a number of associated industries. What mywife and I are attempting to observe are the effects of Jamshedpur's urban and industrial milieu on traditional Santal culture. In the widest theoretical sense, our study is meant to be at least a …
Politics and Social Change . F. G. B ailey
The Santal: A Tribe in Search of a Great Tradition
The Santal: A Tribe in Search of a Great Tradition
Surplus
Religion and Myth: Totemism in India. J ohn V. F erreira
The Andaman Islanders
Maximizing in Jajmaniland: A Model of Caste Relations
Insofar as it may be regarded as a purely logicomathematical system, lacking empirical content, economic theory may, by appropriate empirical interpretation, be applied to domains quite apart from the market. Here such use yields a model of caste or jajmani relations. The chief assumptions of the model regarding the stability of a caste system are the following: (1) it requires a high concentration of political power; (2) it requires "prices" tha…
Orans' Reply to Ferreira
The Kingdom of the Young: Abridged from 'The Muria and Their Ghotul
General and Ethnology: Land Tenure in Village Ceylon: A Sociological and Historical Study. Gananath Obeyesekere
Ethnology: Society at the Time of the Buddha. Narendra Wagle
Modernization and Development: From Zamindar to Ballot Box: Community Change in a North Indian Market Town. Richard G. Fox
Society in India . David G. Mandelbaum
Mighty Sifts: A Critical Appraisal of Solutions to Galton's Problem and a Partial Solution [and Comments and Replies]
Galton's problem arises from historical connection between societies, which makes the canon of statistical independence inapplicable. The resulting indeterminacy of sample size renders standard tests of statistical significance also inapplicable. In addition, replication might bias results. Seven solutions to Galton's problem have been previously offered, and we have found all of them invalid. Three of them suffer from what we have termed the "sy…
Ethnology: The Portrait of Mahali Economy in Midnapur. Syamalkanti Sengupta
Domesticating the Functional Dragon: An Analysis of Piddocke's Potlatch1
This work endeavors to clarify the form of the functional argument so that empirical verification may be facilitated. Piddocke's functional interpretation of the potlatch is examined in detail as a type case; other notable functional arguments with somewhat varying forms are also considered. Lastly, analysis is provided of the universal subsistence form of the functional argument
Situational Logic, Social Structure, and Highland Burma [and Comments and Reply]
The theoretical gap between micro and macro levels of sociological analysis is handled by a concept set that integrates normative and transactional analyses of social phenomena. The concept set of situational logic-which refers to an actor's location in social structure and access to power and resources-when combined with equilibrium analysis, provides the necessary tools to comprehend how social systems operate. Political Systems of Highland Bur…
On Z Factors
On Critical Appraisal of Solutions to Galton's Problem
From Hindu Kush to Sri Lanka and the State of the Art
The Hill of Flutes: Life, Love and Poetry in Tribal India. W. G. Archer. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.Structural Approaches to South India Studies. Harry M. Buck and Glenn E. Yocum, eds. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: Wilson Books, 1974.Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society: Religious Alignments in the Hindu Kush. Robert Leroy Canfield. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan No. 50. 1973.Elite…
More on Solutions to Galton's Problem
Residence and Descent Is Hyperdiffusional
Zucker's (1976) test for Galton's problem leads him to claim that the association between patrilocality and patrilineality is "hyperdiffusional.' We critically examine his test, and present detailed evidence of a variety of tests vripporting the lawful relation between residence and descent. We offer also some deductive arguments on the effect and the measurement of diffusion, together with some hypothetical examples showing how sev eral of the p…
Ecology, Evolution, and the Search for Cultural Origins: The Question of Islamic Pig Prohibition [and Comments and Reply]
This paper examines the ecological explanation offered by Marvin Harris for the origin of pig prohibition in Islam, using the case to evaluate the functional-ecological paradigm and its treatment of cultural origins. Five majorpoints are addressed. First, a survey of the biological literature reveals that functional-ecological theory and evolutionary theory are distinct, but related. While functional ecology explains how systems work, evolutionar…
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