<p>Popular passagesPage 19 - No natural history can be interpreted in the absence of at least some implicit body of intertwined theoretical and methodological belief that permits selection, evaluation, and criticism.Appears in 58 books from 1934-2007Page 97 - If permitted to develop unchecked, the tendency to write ethnographies in accord with the emic rules of behavior will result in an unintentional parody of the human condition. Applied to our own culture it would conjure up a way of life in which men tip their hats to ladies; youths defer to old people in public conveyances; unwed mothers are a rarity; citizens go to the aid of law enforcement officers; chewing gum is never stuck under tables and never dropped on the sidewalk; television repairmen...Appears in 13 books from 1968-1992Page 62 - There persists, however, throughout the whole period the fixed scientific cosmology which presupposes the ultimate fact of an irreducible brute matter, or material, spread throughout space in a flux of configurations. In itself such a material is senseless, valueless, purposeless. It just does what it does do, following a fixed routine imposed by external relations which do not spring from the nature of its being.Appears in 72 books from 1909-2006Page 160 - Goodenough's (l964, 36-7) account of the 'new ethnography' in anthropology comes very close: l34 a society's culture consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members...Appears in 233 books from 1932-2008</p>

Quantification in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction to Research Design

Politics & Social Sciences

Johnson, Allen W.

Social Sciences

Stanford University Press

Quantification in Cultural Anthropolgy

Anthropology

By combining an original thesis and a representative body of ethnographic data, this ambitious work seeks to describe and explain the growth in complexity of human societies.Its emphasis is on the causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution, which the authors explain in terms of a coherent theory of political economydefined as the mobilization and exchange of goods and services between families. The authors show that the interconnected processes of technological change and population growth are the motor of social change, resulting in three related processesintensification, integration, and stratificationthat transform human societies over time. The validity of their theory rests on evidence drawn from 19 case studies that range widely over time and space.For this new edition, the authors have thoroughly rewritten the theoretical argument for greater clarity, updated the case materials to incorporate new research, and added a new chapter that applies their theoretical perspective to the problems of change since the industrial revolution and the globalization of trade and political influence.Reviews of the First EditionIn a book full of perceptive observations and persuasive arguments . . . Johnson and Earle show in masterly detail how societies articulate to their environments and . . . how they evolve.âEthnohistoryA major contribution. . . . The book is a marvelous synthesis of ethnographic and historical data.âAmerican Journal of SociologyA large amount of research and thought has produced sensible and illuminating specific analyses of the mechanisms of evolutionary change. Another plus is that the writing is clear and the argument is neatly conceived.âAmerican Anthropologist

Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State

Earle, Timothy

Stanford Univ Pr

Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature

<p>Is the "Oedipus complex" universal? This book examines the controversial question in light of its collection of 139 family complex folktales from every world cultural area and every level of social complexity, the largest such collection ever made.</p>

Literature & Fiction

Price-Williams, Douglass

History & Criticism

Is the "Oedipus complex" universal? This book examines the controversial question in light of its collection of 139 family complex folktales from every world cultural area and every level of social complexity, the largest such collection ever made.

The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, Second Edition

By combining an original thesis and a representative body of ethnographic data, this ambitious work seeks to describe and explain the growth in complexity of human societies. Its emphasis is on the causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution, which the authors explain in terms of a coherent theory of political economy―defined as the mobilization and exchange of goods and services between families. The authors show that the interconnected processes of technological change and population growth are the motor of social change, resulting in three related processes―intensification, integration, and stratification―that transform human societies over time. The validity of their theory rests on evidence drawn from 19 case studies that range widely over time and space. For this new edition, the authors have thoroughly rewritten the theoretical argument for greater clarity, updated the case materials to incorporate new research, and added a new chapter that applies their theoretical perspective to the problems of change since the industrial revolution and the globalization of trade and political influence. Reviews of the First Edition "In a book full of perceptive observations and persuasive arguments . . . Johnson and Earle show in masterly detail how societies articulate to their environments and . . . how they evolve." ―Ethnohistory "A major contribution. . . . The book is a marvelous synthesis of ethnographic and historical data." ―American Journal of Sociology "A large amount of research and thought has produced sensible and illuminating specific analyses of the mechanisms of evolutionary change. Another plus is that the writing is clear and the argument is neatly conceived." ―American Anthropologist

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Quantification in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction to Research Design

Quantification in Cultural Anthropolgy

Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State

Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature

Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature

The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, Second Edition