Classic anthropology : critical essays, 1944-1996 / John W. Bennett ; with contributions by Leo A. Despres and Michio Nagai.
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
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Table of Contents:
- Classic anthropology : an introduction
- Myth, theory, and value in cultural anthropology
- Interdisciplinary research and the concept of culture
- The micro-macro nexus in classic and post-classic anthropology
- The Plains Indian Sun Dance : Leslie Spier's historical reconstruction, and functionalist research by others
- Interpretations of Pueblo Indian culture by Laura Thompson, Esther Goldfrank, Dorothy Eggan, and others
- Early and late functional analysis : Bronislaw Malinowski's Baloma : Spirits of the Dead and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft
- A problem in social organization : the use of kinship as an organizing principle for instrumental activities
- Psychology and anthropology : modes of interface as represented in the work of F.C. Bartlett, Abram Kardiner, Ralph Linton, and Gregory Bateson
- A.L. Kroeber and the concept of culture as superorganic
- Walter W. Taylor and Americanist archaeology's search for a concept of culture
- Applied and action anthropology : problems of ideology and intervention
- The "famous lady anthropologists" : Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead
- Populist anthropology : Robert Lowie, Marvin Harris, and Clyde Kluckhohn
- Epilogue : a philosophical voice at the end of the classic era : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.