Abraham Rosman
Biographic Data
| ID | 94987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abraham Rosman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abraham |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosman |
| SIGNATURE | ROSMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Translating Cultures: Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology
Helen Frances Codere (1917-2009)
The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss is one of the major thinkers of the modern age. Regarded as a crucial figure in the development of structuralism, his writings are studied across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy and literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss presents a major reassessment of his work and influence. The fifteen specially-commissioned essays in this volume engage with the controversies that have surr…
Commentary on the Obituary for Marvin Harris
Commentary on the Obituary for Marvin Harris
Irving Goldman (1911-2002)
Response to Richard Eves
Why They Collected: The History of Artifact Collecting in New Ireland
George Brown, Pioneer Missionary and Collector
Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China [and Comments and Reply]
The Past and the Future of Anthropology
The Bella Coola Indians
Powdermaker's Lesu
Powdermaker's study of Lesu was done while she was a student of Malinowski's at the London School of Economics. As such, it reflects the strengths and weaknesses of the functionalist approach. Powdermaker's ethnographic description of Lesu treats it as though it was a bounded society unrelated to a wider context. We examine Powdermaker's Lesu from the theoretical perspective of anthropology today, as a village within a region having a particular …
Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual
L'annee des Indiens Kwakiutl est divisee en deux : l'ete qui est consacre au potlatch est la periode profane tandis que l'hiver, ou se deroulent les rites d'initiation, est la periode sacree. Les fetes estivales celebrent les animaux ancestraux, les ceremonies hivernales, les esprits surnaturels, qui prennent toutefois eux aussi une forme animale. Malgre ce double zoomorphisme, les masques kwakiutl de la fin du XIXe s. presentent suffisamment de …
Mandak Realities: Person and Power in Central New Ireland. BRENDA JOHNSON CLAY
The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power Among the New Guinea Baruya. Maurice Godelier
The Evolution of Central Northwest Coast Societies
The evolution of cognatic societies (Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Bella Coola) of the Northwest Coast is derived from a prototype which resembles the social structure of Salish-speaking peoples of the interior of British Columbia (Lillooet and Thompson River)
The Tapestry of Culture
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Against the Tranquility of Axioms
The Evolution of Exchange Structures and Ranking: Some Northwest Coast and Athapaskan Examples
The evolution of the matrilineal societies of the northern Northwest Coast is discussed in terms of a structuralist approach which seeks their antecedent structure. This hypothesized prototype is derived from a synchronic analysis of these societies. Neighboring Athapaskan societies retain this antecedent structure as their dominant structure
General and Theoretical: The World of Goods. Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood
Shark fishing in Melanesia
Shark fishing, where it is pursued in Eastern Melanesia, involves a technique different from other fishing techniques as well as a special form of magic. Furthermore, sharks whether or not they are fished for, may be vehicles of sorcery, reincarnations of deceased men and agents for disposing of the dead. This paper explores the meaning of sharks, their sexual symbolism and the symbolic intercourse which their capture signifies
Reply to Weiner
Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat: A Comparative Study of New Guinea Societies
Transactions in Kinship: Adoption and Fosterage in Oceania . Ivan BRADY, Ed
Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China [and Comments and Reply]
Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat: A Comparative Study of New Guinea Societies
George Brown, Pioneer Missionary and Collector
Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual
L'annee des Indiens Kwakiutl est divisee en deux : l'ete qui est consacre au potlatch est la periode profane tandis que l'hiver, ou se deroulent les rites d'initiation, est la periode sacree. Les fetes estivales celebrent les animaux ancestraux, les ceremonies hivernales, les esprits surnaturels, qui prennent toutefois eux aussi une forme animale. Malgre ce double zoomorphisme, les masques kwakiutl de la fin du XIXe s. presentent suffisamment de …
Potlatch and Hakari: An Analysis of Maori Society in Terms of the Potlatch Model
The Potlatch: A Structural Analysis1
Significant variations are shown to be present in the potlatch in two Northwest Coast societies. Differences occur in occasions for potlatches, in frequency, in guests present, and in the nature of their relationship to the host. These variations are related to variations in the social structures of the societies. The Tlingit and the Kwakiutl are selected for comparison, using an approach which involves the building of models based upon a rule of…
Powdermaker's Lesu
Powdermaker's study of Lesu was done while she was a student of Malinowski's at the London School of Economics. As such, it reflects the strengths and weaknesses of the functionalist approach. Powdermaker's ethnographic description of Lesu treats it as though it was a bounded society unrelated to a wider context. We examine Powdermaker's Lesu from the theoretical perspective of anthropology today, as a village within a region having a particular …
Why They Collected: The History of Artifact Collecting in New Ireland
The Evolution of Exchange Structures and Ranking: Some Northwest Coast and Athapaskan Examples
The evolution of the matrilineal societies of the northern Northwest Coast is discussed in terms of a structuralist approach which seeks their antecedent structure. This hypothesized prototype is derived from a synchronic analysis of these societies. Neighboring Athapaskan societies retain this antecedent structure as their dominant structure
Nomad-Sedentary Interethnic Relations in Iran and Afghanistan
The following is a report of a pilot study on nomad-sedentary relations viewed in terms of exchange. The study was conducted in the Zagros Mountains of Iran and in the central Hazarajat of Afghanistan during the summer of 1971. The research involved the application in a field situation of a theoretical framework that links exchange and social structure. In previous research we had investigated the relationship between social structure and exchang…
Commentary on the Obituary for Marvin Harris
The Past and the Future of Anthropology
General and Theoretical: The World of Goods. Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood
Helen Frances Codere (1917-2009)
Irving Goldman (1911-2002)
Response to Richard Eves
The Evolution of Central Northwest Coast Societies
The evolution of cognatic societies (Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Bella Coola) of the Northwest Coast is derived from a prototype which resembles the social structure of Salish-speaking peoples of the interior of British Columbia (Lillooet and Thompson River)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Against the Tranquility of Axioms
Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit. Parts One, Two, and Three. Frederica de Laguna
Big Man structure and exchange systems in New Guinea
Exchange partners in New Guinea societies
Marriage rules and the structure of relationships between groups in New Guinea societies
Structuralism as a Conceptual Framework
I had imagined that the central issue of this symposium would be the contrast between nomothetic, or generalizing, research and idiographic, or particularistic, research in Africa. To what extent are the conclusions of research carried out in Africa limited to a geographic or cultural area: to sub-Saharan Africa, to the Bantu, to the Southeastern Bantu? To what extent are the conclusions generalizable to a certain type of society, no matter where…
Potlatch and Hakari: An Analysis of Maori Society in Terms of the Potlatch Model
The Potlatch: A Structural Analysis1
Significant variations are shown to be present in the potlatch in two Northwest Coast societies. Differences occur in occasions for potlatches, in frequency, in guests present, and in the nature of their relationship to the host. These variations are related to variations in the social structures of the societies. The Tlingit and the Kwakiutl are selected for comparison, using an approach which involves the building of models based upon a rule of…
Rejoinder to Adams and Kasakoff's Review of Feasting With Mine Enemy
Exchange partners in New Guinea societies
Marriage rules and the structure of relationships between groups in New Guinea societies
Nomad-Sedentary Interethnic Relations in Iran and Afghanistan
The following is a report of a pilot study on nomad-sedentary relations viewed in terms of exchange. The study was conducted in the Zagros Mountains of Iran and in the central Hazarajat of Afghanistan during the summer of 1971. The research involved the application in a field situation of a theoretical framework that links exchange and social structure. In previous research we had investigated the relationship between social structure and exchang…
Ethnology: Politics in New Guinea: Traditional and in the Context of Change—Some Anthropological Perspectives. Ronald M. Berndt and Peter Lawrence
Big Man structure and exchange systems in New Guinea
The Haida Indians: Cultural Change Mainly Between 1876–1970. J. H. van den Brink
Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit. Parts One, Two, and Three. Frederica de Laguna
Transactions in Kinship: Adoption and Fosterage in Oceania . Ivan BRADY, Ed
Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat: A Comparative Study of New Guinea Societies
Shark fishing in Melanesia
Shark fishing, where it is pursued in Eastern Melanesia, involves a technique different from other fishing techniques as well as a special form of magic. Furthermore, sharks whether or not they are fished for, may be vehicles of sorcery, reincarnations of deceased men and agents for disposing of the dead. This paper explores the meaning of sharks, their sexual symbolism and the symbolic intercourse which their capture signifies
Reply to Weiner
General and Theoretical: The World of Goods. Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood
The Evolution of Exchange Structures and Ranking: Some Northwest Coast and Athapaskan Examples
The evolution of the matrilineal societies of the northern Northwest Coast is discussed in terms of a structuralist approach which seeks their antecedent structure. This hypothesized prototype is derived from a synchronic analysis of these societies. Neighboring Athapaskan societies retain this antecedent structure as their dominant structure
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Against the Tranquility of Axioms
The Evolution of Central Northwest Coast Societies
The evolution of cognatic societies (Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Bella Coola) of the Northwest Coast is derived from a prototype which resembles the social structure of Salish-speaking peoples of the interior of British Columbia (Lillooet and Thompson River)
The Tapestry of Culture
The Making of Great Men: Male Domination and Power Among the New Guinea Baruya. Maurice Godelier
Mandak Realities: Person and Power in Central New Ireland. BRENDA JOHNSON CLAY
Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual
L'annee des Indiens Kwakiutl est divisee en deux : l'ete qui est consacre au potlatch est la periode profane tandis que l'hiver, ou se deroulent les rites d'initiation, est la periode sacree. Les fetes estivales celebrent les animaux ancestraux, les ceremonies hivernales, les esprits surnaturels, qui prennent toutefois eux aussi une forme animale. Malgre ce double zoomorphisme, les masques kwakiutl de la fin du XIXe s. presentent suffisamment de …
Powdermaker's Lesu
Powdermaker's study of Lesu was done while she was a student of Malinowski's at the London School of Economics. As such, it reflects the strengths and weaknesses of the functionalist approach. Powdermaker's ethnographic description of Lesu treats it as though it was a bounded society unrelated to a wider context. We examine Powdermaker's Lesu from the theoretical perspective of anthropology today, as a village within a region having a particular …
Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China [and Comments and Reply]
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