Culture and Human Nature

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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This volume illustrates Melford Spiro's explorations of key relationships among culture, society, and human nature. He addresses such fundamental issues as the limitations of cultural relativism, the problem of explanation in the social sciences, and the importance of a comparative approach to the study of social and cultural systems. Spiro believes that deep motivational and cognitive structures underlie human behavior. He argues that these structures can be explained by the evolutionary history of our species and by social experience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1994-02-28
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt566 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor342
FörlagTaylor & Francis Inc
ISBN9781560007029

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Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Editors' Introduction, I. CULTURE AND HUMAN NATURE, 1. Culture and Human Nature, 2. Some Reflections on Cultural Determinism and Relativism with Special Attention to Emotion and Reason, 3. Preculture and Gender, 4. Is the Oedipus Complex Universal?, II. FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS, 5. Social Systems, Personality, and Functional Analysis, 6. Religious Systems as Culturally Constituted Defense Mechanisms, 7. Collective Representations and Mental Representations in Religious Symbol Systems, III. RELIGION AND MYTH, 8. Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation, 9. Virgin Birth, Parthenogenesis, and Physiological Paternity: An Essay in Cultural Interpretation, 10. Whatever Happened to the Id?, 11. Some Reflections on Family and Religion in East Asia, 12. Symbolism and Functionalism in the Anthropological Study of Religion, Index