| Description |
530 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The study of anthropology sec. 1. Anthropology and an education for the future / Margaret Mead -- sec. 2. The world into which Darwin led us / George Gaylord Simpson -- sec. 3. Perspectives gained from field work / Laura Nader -- sec. 4. Fieldwork in Malta / Jeremy Boissevain -- pt. 2. Prehistory : -- sec. 5. Human society before the urban revolution / Robert Redfield -- sec. 6. The legacy of Sumer / Samuel Noah Kramer -- sec. 7. Culture history v. cultural process : a debate in American archaeology / Kent V. Flannery -- sec. 8. Current thinking in American archeology / William A. Longacre -- sec. 9. The Bering Strait land bridge / William G. Haag -- sec. 10. The earliest Americans / C. Vance Haynes, Jr. -- sec. 11. Archeology as anthropology : a case study / William A. Longacre -- sec. 12. The enthno-archaeology of Hopi pottery making / Michael B. Stanislawski -- pt. 3. Physical anthropology sec. 13. The new physical anthropology / Sherwood L. Washburn -- sec. 14. Physical anthropology : the search for general processes and principles / Gabriel W. Lasker -- sec. 15. The human revolution / Charles F. Hockett and Robert Ascher -- sec. 16. Adaptive changes in the human body / Carleton S. Coon, Stanley M. Garn, Joseph B. Birdsell -- sec. 17. Somatic paths to culture / J.N. Spuhler -- sec. 18. The study of race / S.L. Washburn -- pt. 4. Primates sec. 19. Field studies of old world monkeys and apes / Phyllis C. (Jay) Dolhinow, Jane B. Lancaster -- sec. 20. Social deprivation in monkeys / Harry F. and Margaret Kuenne Harlow -- sec. 21. A comparison of the ecology and behavior of monkeys and apes / Irven DeVore -- sec. 22. Baboon ecology and human evolution / Irven DeVore and S.L. Washburn -- sec. 23. On the evolution of tool-using behavior / Jane B. Lancaster -- pt. 5. Primitive technology sec. 24. The making of stone implements / Kenneth P. Oakley -- sec. 25. The first tipi / Alice Marriott -- sec. 26. How the Bemba make their living / Max Gluckman -- sec. 27. What hunters do for a living, or, how to make out on scarce resources / Richard B. Lee -- pt. 6. Primitive society sec. 28. Bontok social organization / Felix M. Keesing -- sec. 29. Kinship systems / A.M. Hocart -- sec. 30. Brother-sister avoidance among Trobriand Islanders / Bronislaw Malinowski -- sec. 31. The teachings of my father / Crashing Thunder -- sec. 32. Rank, wealth, and kinship in Northwest Coast society / Philip Drucker -- sec. 33. The role of a Fijian chief / Clellan S. Ford -- sec. 34. Ibo law / Charles K. Meek -- sec. 35. Natchez burial customs / Le Page du Pratz -- sec. 36. The vision quest and the gardian spirit / George A. Pettitt -- sec. 37. The logic of African science and witchcraft / Max Gluckman -- sec. 39. One hundred percent American / Ralph Linton -- sec. 40. Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- pt. 7. Language sec. 40. Being and value in a primitive culture / Dorothy Lee -- sec. 41. The Aztec writing system / Charles E. Dibble -- sec. 42. By their speech shall ye know them / Clyde Kluckhohn and Dorothea Leighton -- pt. 8. Society and culture sec. 43. The symbol : the origin, and basis of human behavior / Leslie A. White -- sec. 44. Diffusionism and Darwinism / Erik K. Reed -- sec. 45. Peasant society and the image of limited good / George M. Foster -- sec. 46. The social consequence of a change in subsistence economy / Ralph Linton -- sec. 47. Gossip and scandal / Max Gluckman -- sec. 48. Steel axes for Stone Age Australians / Lauriston Sharp -- sec. 49. The backwash of the frontier : the impact of the Indian on American culture / A. Irving Hallowell -- sec. 50. Where are we going if anywhere? : a look at post-civilization / Kenneth E. Boulding -- pt. 9. Ecology sec. 51. The cultural ecology of India's sacred cattle / Marvin Harris -- sec. 52. Archeological systems theory and early Mesoamerica / Kent V. Flannery -- sec. 53. Microenvironments and mesoamerican prehistory / Michael D. Coe and Kent V. Flannery -- sec. 54. Early civilizations, subsistence, and environment / Robert M. Adams -- sec. 55. Investigating the origins of Mesopotamian civilization / Frank Hole -- sec. 56. A theory of the origin of the state / Robert L. Carneiro -- sec. 57. Post-Pleistocene adaptations / Lewis R. Binford -- pt. 10. Economic anthropology sec. 58. Primitive money / George Dalton -- sec. 59. The organization of economic life / Manning Nash -- sec. 60. The impact of money on an African subsistence economy / Paul Bohannan -- pt. 11. Applied anthropology sec. 61. The uses of anthropology / Sol Tax -- sec. 62. Anthropology as an applied science / H.G. Barnett -- sec. 63. Interventionism and applied science in anthropology / Lisa R. Peattie -- sec. 64. The research and development approach to the study of change / Allan R. Holmberg -- sec. 65. Some relations of school and family in American culture / Robert F. Spencer -- sec. 67. Healing ways / Lyle Saunders |
| Analysis |
Anthropology |
| Notes |
Earlier editions entered under E. A. Hoebel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Index |
| Subject |
Anthropology.
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| Author |
Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson), 1906-1993.
Readings in anthropology
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| LC no. |
71174617 |
| ISBN |
0070324484 |
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