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The concept and dynamics of culture.
Title:
The concept and dynamics of culture.
Author:
Bernardi, Bernardo.
ISBN:
9783110807745
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (642 pages)
Series:
World Anthropology
Contents:
General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE -- An Analysis of the Concept of Culture -- The Concept of Culture: A New Presentation -- The Meaning of "Sociocultural" -- The Concept of Culture in the System of Modern Sciences -- A Unified Theory of Society-Field Aspect -- PART TWO: THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURE -- Anthropological Criteria for a Notion of Progress -- The Segregative and Integrative Functions of Culture -- Ecosystem Analogies in Cultural Ecology -- Energy and Culture -- Anthropology and "Energology" -- PART THREE: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF CULTURE -- Meaning in Culture -- Do Anthropologists Explain? -- The Contribution of Cultural Anthropology to Scholarship -- Economic Anthropology and Developmental Theories -- Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology -- PART FOUR: THE SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF CULTURE -- Study of Man's Horizon-Creation: A Perspective for Cultural Anthropology -- The Object of Ethnology -- The Concept of Integral Anthropology -- Integration Processes in Complex Societies -- Panculture: A Hominization-Derived Processual Taxonomy from Murdock's Universal Basics -- Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values -- Anthropologists and Their Terminologies -- PART FIVE: CULTURAL DIFFERENTIATIONS -- Toward a Theory of American Culture -- On the Scientific Content of the "National Character" Concept -- Rethinking Hopi Social Organization -- Religio-Anthropological Depth Research -- Human Coexistence and Culture -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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