Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)

How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study. Taking up the classic problems in the study of of social organisation, Professor Goodenough describes the major issues in the cross-cultural study of kinship and the family, revealing the kinds of constants, both formal and functional, on which such study must be based. The result is new definitions of marriage, family and parenthood for use in cross-cultural analysis and a greater understanding of this form of analysis itself. The statement on the interdependence of description and comparison in cultural anthropology and its implications for a science of culture, provides fresh insights into cross-cultural analysis for both the theoretical and the practical anthropologist.

Politics & Social Sciences

Goodenough, Ward H.

Anthropology

Cambridge University Press

Culture, Language and Society

Business & Money

Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Addison-Wesley

<p>This second volume of the Trukese-English Dictionary supplements the first one, published in 1980. It provides an English-Trukese index, or finderlist, for the Trukese-English of the first volume an a concordance of roots, including what appear to be complex words that cannot be analyzed into constiuent elements.</p>

Trukese-English Dictionary, Supplementary Volume: English-Trukese and Index of Trukese Word Roots, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 141S) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Literature & Fiction

SUGITA, HIROSHI

United States

The American Philosophical Society Press

For the people of Chuuk and for students of religion and Micronesian culture, this book pulls together and makes available in English the somewhat scattered published accounts (largely in German), along with Goodenough's own (as yet unpublished) information about religious beliefs and ritual practices in pre-Christian Chuuk. The materials are presented in a way that seeks to document and illustrate a particular approach, a functional one, to understanding the kinds of human concerns that give rise to religious behavior. Simply to describe traditional beliefs and rituals without the relevant social background information leaves the reader without any feeling for what were the emotional concerns, engendered by life in Chuukese society, that ritual practices helped people address. Ward Goodenough offers a theoretical introduction, the necessary background information about Chuuk and the ways in which members of Chuukese society experienced themselves and their fellows, the world view and overall set of beliefs providing the intellectual framework within which ritual practices were formulated and understood, and the various bodies of ritual practices. He concludes the book with a summary that pulls together how the rituals described appear to related to the emotional concerns that growing up and living in Chuuk tended to create.

Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 246) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

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