Man in Adaptation
The Institutional Framework
1st Edition
Published on 30. January 1971
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Paperback/Softback
493 pages
978-0-202-01096-0 (ISBN)
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How do specific activities and institutions in which people are involved fit into the overall adaptive strategy of their society? What are the particular pressures leading to change in each of these spheres when the group's strategy of adaptation changes? What are the human demands made by a hunting-gathering strategy that lead to the development of particular family systems, modes of social control, religious beliefs and practices, values and ideologies, and personality structures? What are the new human demands that lead to the reorganization of these aspects of life as the group moves from one level of development to another?
Man in Adaptation: The Institutional Framework introduces the institutional, psychological, and ideological dimensions of the strategies of adaptation that have characterized human societies from the earliest known forms of social life to the present. Cohen includes topics that are of principal anthropological concern-notably marriage, law and social control, religion and magic, value systems, personality, and art.
There are no studies that deal with cultural change as such in this book. Where possible, Cohen includes articles that deal with changes in particular spheres of activity, such as family organization, law, religion, and value systems. He argues that change is not a special situation. Instead, culture is change and change is culture, and it is unrealistic to study change outside the specific social and technological organization of a given society. This volume unifies the subject matter of anthropology within a single and powerful explanatory framework and incorporates the work of the most renowned anthropological experts on man.
Man in Adaptation: The Institutional Framework introduces the institutional, psychological, and ideological dimensions of the strategies of adaptation that have characterized human societies from the earliest known forms of social life to the present. Cohen includes topics that are of principal anthropological concern-notably marriage, law and social control, religion and magic, value systems, personality, and art.
There are no studies that deal with cultural change as such in this book. Where possible, Cohen includes articles that deal with changes in particular spheres of activity, such as family organization, law, religion, and value systems. He argues that change is not a special situation. Instead, culture is change and change is culture, and it is unrealistic to study change outside the specific social and technological organization of a given society. This volume unifies the subject matter of anthropology within a single and powerful explanatory framework and incorporates the work of the most renowned anthropological experts on man.
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English
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Somerset
United States
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Taylor & Francis Inc
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Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
920 gr
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978-0-202-01096-0 (9780202010960)
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Content
Preface The Naked Ape, John Updike Adaptation and Evolution: An Introduction I. MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY I. Stability and Flexibility in Hadza Residential Groupings, James Woodburn 2. Land Use and the Extended Family in Moala, Fiji, Marshall D. Sahlins 3. Household Viability among the Pastoral Fulani, Derrick J. Stenning 4. The Individual and Family Relationships in Guatemala, Ruben E. Reina 5. Urban Families: Conjugal Roles and Social Networks , Elizabeth Bolt II. LAW AND SOCIAL CONTROL 6. The Importance of Flux in Two Hunting Societies, Colin M. Turnbull 7. The Dynamic Adaptation of Sebei Law, Walter Goldschmidt 8. Ifugao Law, Roy F. Barton 9. A Traditional Legal System: The Kuba, Jan Vansina 10. The Law of Ancient Babylonia, J. B. Bury, S. A. Cook, and F. E. Adcock 11. The Offer of a Free Home: A Case Study in the Family Law of the Poor, Herma H. Kay III. RELIGION AND MAGIC 12. Spirits, Power, and Man, James F. Downs 13. Hehe Magical Justice, Edgar V. Winans and Robert B. Edgerton 14. Pietas in Ancestor Worship, Meyer Fortes 15. Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People, Roy A. Rappaport 16. Japanese Religion: A General View, Robert N. Bellah 17. Fiestas in an Indian Community in Peru, William P. Mangin 18. Religion and Status: America and England, Bryan Wilson IV. VALUES AND IDEOLOGIES 19. Eskimo Cultural Values, Norman A. Chance 20. The Cherokee Ethos, Fred Gearing 21. The Internalization of Political Values in Stateless Societies, Robert A. LeVine 22. Peasant Society and the I mage of Limited Good, George M. Foster 23. Agricultural Organization, Social Structure, and Values in Italy: Amoral Familism Reconsidered, Sydel F. Silverman 24. American Cultural Values, Conrad M. Arensberg and Arthur H. Niehoff 25. The City as an Anarchic System, Richard Sennett V. THE INDIVIDUAL IN ADAPTATION 26. Eskimo Values and Personality, Norman A. Chance 27. Instruction and Affect in Hopi Cultural Continuity, Dorothy Eggan 28. Personality Structure in the Plains, Thomas Gladwin 29. Character Formation and Social Structure in a Jamaican Community, Yehudi A. Cohen 30. Male and Female Adaptations in Culture Change , Louise and George Spindler 31. Social Change and Social Character: The Role of Parental Mediation, Alex fnkeles VI. THE ARTS 32. Prehistoric Art and Ideology, Morton Lerine 33. Masks as Agents of Social Control, Roy Sieber 34. The Abelam Artist, Anthony Forge 35. The Revolution in Painting, Diego Rilwa 36. The Process of Disenchantment: Magical and Disenchanted Moral Logic, Rosalie H. Wax 37. Musical Adaptation among Afro-Americans, John F. Szwed Index