Author : Edward Burnett Tylor
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0486807517
Volume II of this classic two-part work by a distinguished anthropologist focuses on animism the belief that everything possesses a soul to trace the development of mind and culture."
Author : Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Civilization
ISBN :
Author : Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release :
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
This classic is organized as follows: Introduction Part I Chapter I. Collective Representations in Primitives’ Perceptions and the Mystical Character of Such Chapter II. The Law of Participation Chapter III. The Functioning of Prelogical Mentality Part II Chapter IV. The Mentality of Primitives in Relation to the Languages They Speak Chapter V. Prelogical Mentality in Relation to Numeration Part III Chapter VI. Institutions in Which Collective Representations Governed by the Law of Participation Are Involved (I) Chapter VII. Institutions in Which Collective Representations Governed by the Law of Participation Are Involved (II) Chapter VIII. Institutions in Which Collective Representations Governed by the Law of Participation Are Involved (III) Part IV Chapter IX. The Transition to the Higher Mental Types
Author : Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Civilization
ISBN :
Author : Robert B. Edgerton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1451602324
Author and scholar Robert Edgerton challenges the notion that primitive societies were happy and healthy before they were corrupted and oppressed by colonialism. He surveys a range of ethnographic writings, and shows that many of these so-called innocent societies were cruel, confused, and misled.
Author : Bernd-Christian Otto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317545044
Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today. The texts have been selected on the strength of their success in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided into chronological sections and each essay is separately introduced for student readers. Together, these texts - from Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology - reveal the breadth of critical approaches and responses to defining what is magic. CONTRIBUTORS: Aquinas, Augustine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dennis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Edward Evans-Pritchard, James Frazer, Susan Greenwood, Robin Horton, Edmund Leach, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Christopher Lehrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Plato, Pliny, Plotin, Isidore of Sevilla, Jesper Sorensen, Kimberley Stratton, Randall Styers, Edward Tylor
Author : Alexander Goldenweiser
Publisher : Reprint Publishing
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 2015-12-04
Category :
ISBN : 9783959401500
Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1937 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Illustrated with over 100 drawings, photos and maps. Alexander Alexandrovich Goldenweiser was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1880. He emigrated to the United States in 1900. He studied anthropology under Franz Boas, and earned his AB degree from Columbia University in 1902, his AM degree in 1904, and his Ph.D. in 1910. Professor Goldenweiser taught at the following institutions: Lecturer, Anthropology, Columbia University, 1910-1919; New School for Social Research, NY, 1919-1926; Lecturer, Rand School of Social Science, 1915-1929; Professor, Thought and Culture, Oregon State System of Higher Education, Portland Extension, 1930-1938; Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1937-1938; Professor, University of Washington, 1923; Visiting Professor of Sociology, Reed College, 1933-1939. He died on July 6, 1940, in Portland, Oregon.
Author : E. Adamson Hoebel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674038707
This classic work in the anthropology of law offers ambitiously conceived analyses of the fundamental rights and duties treated as law among nonliterate peoples. The heart of the book is an analysis of the law of five societies: the Eskimo; the Ifugao; the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne tribes; the Trobriand Islanders; and the Ashanti.
Author : John W. Mohr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231542585
Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and the world in which they live. But how do we measure such processes? Measuring Culture is an essential point of entry for both those new to the field and those who are deeply immersed in the measurement of meaning. Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative and quantitative sociologists of culture, the book considers three common subjects of measurement—people, objects, and relationships—and then discusses how to pivot effectively between subjects and methods. Measuring Culture takes the reader on a tour of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of neuroscience to computational social science. It provides both the definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.
Author : Jackson Steward Lincoln
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2003-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486427065
This analysis opens with a historical review of dream interpretation, exploring the structure, theory, and function of dreams in primitive cultures and examining their predominant symbols, types, and forms. Focusing on Native American dreams, the study defines their significance to the individual and their relationship to the culture pattern.
