Man in Adaptation
The Institutional Framework
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 2017
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Hardback
492 pages
978-1-138-52754-6 (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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
1119 gr
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978-1-138-52754-6 (9781138527546)
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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
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