Morris Freilich
Biographic Data
| ID | 86511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morris Freilich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morris |
| FAMILY NAME | Freilich |
| SIGNATURE | FREILICH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
In the Sticks: Cultural Identity in a Rural Police Force. Malcolm Young
Deviance: Anthropological Perspectives
Introduction: The Anthropology of Deviance Models for Cross-Cultural Research Smart Rules and Proper Rules: A Journey Through Deviance by Morris Freilich Hard versus Soft Deviance: Anthropology and Labeling Theory by Douglas Raybeck Free Shows and Cheap Thrills: Staged Deviance in the Arctic and the Bahamas by Joel S. Savishinsky Ethnographic Essays Swaziland: Witchcraft and Deviance by Laurel Rose Female Violence Against Related Children: Child …
Norms, Deviance, and Social Control: Conceptual Matters. Jack P. GIBBS
Urban Problems: Perspectives on Corporations, Governments, and Cities
Royal Blue: The Culture of Construction Workers
Programmed to Learn: An Essay on the Evolution of Culture
Smart‐Sex and Proper‐Sex: A Paradigm Found
Fieldwork problems are multiplied with sexual research. A model is presented which identifies the critical issues. Sociocultural processes are shown to be a function of two different types of guidance systems: logical standards and empirical standards. Logical standards (when followed) lead to “proper” behavior; empirical standards (when followed) lead to “smart” behavior. The “smart” versus “proper” conflict must be fully described and analyzed …
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
An Asian Anthropologist in the South: Field Experiences with Blacks, Indians, and Whites. Choong Soon Kim
"Mary douglas and the "new anthropology
Mary Douglas. Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. xxi + 325 pp. Figures and index. $23.50
On Identifying Structures in Myth
On Freilich's Interpretation of Genesis 1-3
Myth, Method, and Madness [and Comments and Replies]
The structural analysis of myth is a prime focus of anthropological interest, largely because of the efforts of Levi-Strauss. This paper uses some Levi-Straussian ideas to develop a strategy for myth analysis that I call the non-sense-in-myth strategy (NIMS). The strategy is given a trial run on a well-known and (I believe) much-misunderstood myth: Adam and Eve in Eden. The structure identified has an evolutionary character consistent with many m…
Understanding in Anthropology: A Philosophical Reminder [and Comments and Replies]
The task of anthropology consists in describing and explaining cultures and ultimately reaching an understanding of them through interpretation. The practical difficulties of this are obvious to all those who have dealth with members of another culture. As Malinowski observed, the anthropologist's task is to be "the interpreter of the native." It is suggested that some of the principles elucidated in the philosophical discipline of hermeneutics, …
General, Applied and Theoretical: In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov: [Shivhei ha‐Besht]: The Earliest Collection of Legends about the Founder of Hasidism . DAN BEN‐Amos and Jerome R. MINTZ, trans, and ed…
General and Theoretical: Doing Fieldwork: Warnings and Advice. Rosalie H. WAX
The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in Ethnography [and Comments and Reply]
In recent years there has been a steady increase in attention paid by anthropologists to themselves and their field relationships as significant factors in the selection of research problems, the collection of data, and the interpretation of it. The psychological stresses and gratifications of the fieldworker are being recognized as important subjects for professional consideration. In this paper, the historical process of the emergence of self-c…
Structured Imbalances of Gratification: The Case of the Caribbean Mating System
A description and analysis of the sex life of Negro peasants in a community of Eastern Trinidad will reveal how a social system that is based on complementarity between sexual partners nevertheless presents such asymmetry that its equilibrium is extremely precarious. The notion of equilibrium, if useful at all, must be seen in relation to those disequilibrating forces which seemingly stable systems create in the course of their operation. Just as…
Literacy in Traditional Societies
Being an Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Eleven Cultures. George D. Spindler
Marginal natives: Anthropologists at Work
General and Ethnology: Legends of the Hasidim: An Introduction to Hasidic Culture and Oral Tradition in the New World. Jerome R. Mintz
A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida. Oscar Lewis
General and Ethnology: The Andros Islanders: A Study of Family Organization in the Bahamas. K eith F. O tterbein
Ecology and Culture: Environmental Determinism and the Ecological Approach in Anthropology
Throughout the ages man has shown an interest in explaining the world around him.' In myths, folk-tales, poetry, literature, history and science, man has communicated his beliefs in a well-ordered universe where given causes inevitably lead to given effects. Explanations of social and cultural forms existing in a given time and place have tended to be simple: they have frequently identified a single factor as a causal agent.2 An explanation that …
Marginal natives: Anthropologists at Work
The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in Ethnography [and Comments and Reply]
In recent years there has been a steady increase in attention paid by anthropologists to themselves and their field relationships as significant factors in the selection of research problems, the collection of data, and the interpretation of it. The psychological stresses and gratifications of the fieldworker are being recognized as important subjects for professional consideration. In this paper, the historical process of the emergence of self-c…
Understanding in Anthropology: A Philosophical Reminder [and Comments and Replies]
The task of anthropology consists in describing and explaining cultures and ultimately reaching an understanding of them through interpretation. The practical difficulties of this are obvious to all those who have dealth with members of another culture. As Malinowski observed, the anthropologist's task is to be "the interpreter of the native." It is suggested that some of the principles elucidated in the philosophical discipline of hermeneutics, …
Reason in Society: Five Types of Decisions and Their Social Conditions
Ecology and Culture: Environmental Determinism and the Ecological Approach in Anthropology
Throughout the ages man has shown an interest in explaining the world around him.' In myths, folk-tales, poetry, literature, history and science, man has communicated his beliefs in a well-ordered universe where given causes inevitably lead to given effects. Explanations of social and cultural forms existing in a given time and place have tended to be simple: they have frequently identified a single factor as a causal agent.2 An explanation that …
Deviance: Anthropological Perspectives
Introduction: The Anthropology of Deviance Models for Cross-Cultural Research Smart Rules and Proper Rules: A Journey Through Deviance by Morris Freilich Hard versus Soft Deviance: Anthropology and Labeling Theory by Douglas Raybeck Free Shows and Cheap Thrills: Staged Deviance in the Arctic and the Bahamas by Joel S. Savishinsky Ethnographic Essays Swaziland: Witchcraft and Deviance by Laurel Rose Female Violence Against Related Children: Child …
Myth, Method, and Madness [and Comments and Replies]
The structural analysis of myth is a prime focus of anthropological interest, largely because of the efforts of Levi-Strauss. This paper uses some Levi-Straussian ideas to develop a strategy for myth analysis that I call the non-sense-in-myth strategy (NIMS). The strategy is given a trial run on a well-known and (I believe) much-misunderstood myth: Adam and Eve in Eden. The structure identified has an evolutionary character consistent with many m…
The Natural Triad in Kinship and Complex Systems
only a few of them. The probability that a given person of the opposite sex will be included in that small number apparently depends on the time and energy costs of crossing the intervening distance to engage in interaction rather than on intervening opportunities to interact with other similar persons. But what about normative pressures? These may be less important than sociologists have supposed, and cultural variability with respect to marriag…
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
Structured Imbalances of Gratification: The Case of the Caribbean Mating System
A description and analysis of the sex life of Negro peasants in a community of Eastern Trinidad will reveal how a social system that is based on complementarity between sexual partners nevertheless presents such asymmetry that its equilibrium is extremely precarious. The notion of equilibrium, if useful at all, must be seen in relation to those disequilibrating forces which seemingly stable systems create in the course of their operation. Just as…
Smart‐Sex and Proper‐Sex: A Paradigm Found
Fieldwork problems are multiplied with sexual research. A model is presented which identifies the critical issues. Sociocultural processes are shown to be a function of two different types of guidance systems: logical standards and empirical standards. Logical standards (when followed) lead to “proper” behavior; empirical standards (when followed) lead to “smart” behavior. The “smart” versus “proper” conflict must be fully described and analyzed …
Toward a Model of Social Structure
The Natural Experiment, Ecology and Culture
"Mary douglas and the "new anthropology
Mary Douglas. Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. xxi + 325 pp. Figures and index. $23.50
Cultural Models and Land Holdings
Cultural Models and Land Holdings
Serial Polygyny, Negro Peasants, and Model Analysis
Differential Use of Mental Hospital Facilities By Patients and Their Families
The Human Use of the Earth. Philip L. Wagner
Scientific Possibilities in Iroquoian Studies: An Example of Mohawks Past and Present
Reason in Society: Five Types of Decisions and Their Social Conditions
The Natural Experiment, Ecology and Culture
Toward a Model of Social Structure
The Natural Triad in Kinship and Complex Systems
only a few of them. The probability that a given person of the opposite sex will be included in that small number apparently depends on the time and energy costs of crossing the intervening distance to engage in interaction rather than on intervening opportunities to interact with other similar persons. But what about normative pressures? These may be less important than sociologists have supposed, and cultural variability with respect to marriag…
Reply to Johnson's Comments on Freilich's Review of “Reason in Society: Five Types or Decisions and Their Conditions”
The Plural Society in the British West Indies
General and Ethnology: The Andros Islanders: A Study of Family Organization in the Bahamas. K eith F. O tterbein
Ecology and Culture: Environmental Determinism and the Ecological Approach in Anthropology
Throughout the ages man has shown an interest in explaining the world around him.' In myths, folk-tales, poetry, literature, history and science, man has communicated his beliefs in a well-ordered universe where given causes inevitably lead to given effects. Explanations of social and cultural forms existing in a given time and place have tended to be simple: they have frequently identified a single factor as a causal agent.2 An explanation that …
General and Ethnology: Conrparative Functionalisnr: An Essay in Anthropological Theory. Walter Goldschyidt
General and Ethnology: Legends of the Hasidim: An Introduction to Hasidic Culture and Oral Tradition in the New World. Jerome R. Mintz
A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida. Oscar Lewis
Marginal natives: Anthropologists at Work
Being an Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Eleven Cultures. George D. Spindler
The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in Ethnography [and Comments and Reply]
In recent years there has been a steady increase in attention paid by anthropologists to themselves and their field relationships as significant factors in the selection of research problems, the collection of data, and the interpretation of it. The psychological stresses and gratifications of the fieldworker are being recognized as important subjects for professional consideration. In this paper, the historical process of the emergence of self-c…
Structured Imbalances of Gratification: The Case of the Caribbean Mating System
A description and analysis of the sex life of Negro peasants in a community of Eastern Trinidad will reveal how a social system that is based on complementarity between sexual partners nevertheless presents such asymmetry that its equilibrium is extremely precarious. The notion of equilibrium, if useful at all, must be seen in relation to those disequilibrating forces which seemingly stable systems create in the course of their operation. Just as…
Literacy in Traditional Societies
General and Theoretical: Doing Fieldwork: Warnings and Advice. Rosalie H. WAX
General, Applied and Theoretical: In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov: [Shivhei ha‐Besht]: The Earliest Collection of Legends about the Founder of Hasidism . DAN BEN‐Amos and Jerome R. MINTZ, trans, and ed…
Myth, Method, and Madness [and Comments and Replies]
The structural analysis of myth is a prime focus of anthropological interest, largely because of the efforts of Levi-Strauss. This paper uses some Levi-Straussian ideas to develop a strategy for myth analysis that I call the non-sense-in-myth strategy (NIMS). The strategy is given a trial run on a well-known and (I believe) much-misunderstood myth: Adam and Eve in Eden. The structure identified has an evolutionary character consistent with many m…
Understanding in Anthropology: A Philosophical Reminder [and Comments and Replies]
The task of anthropology consists in describing and explaining cultures and ultimately reaching an understanding of them through interpretation. The practical difficulties of this are obvious to all those who have dealth with members of another culture. As Malinowski observed, the anthropologist's task is to be "the interpreter of the native." It is suggested that some of the principles elucidated in the philosophical discipline of hermeneutics, …
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