Transformation and tradition and other essays / G. W. Locher ; translated by Rachel Kalis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Locher, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1908-

Series:

Translation series (Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)) ; 18.

Translation series - Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-Land- en Volkenkunde ; 18

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

The Hague : Nijhoff, 1978.

Contents:

Huizinga and cultural anthropology.

J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong.- Willem Huibert Rassers.

Myth in a changing world, with supplementary remarks on myth and ideology.

Oecumene as a secular sociological concept.

New perspectives in the study of acculturation.

The changing European vision of a non-European world.

The anthropologist Lévi Strauss and the problem of history.

The history of culture, planning and predictability.

Transformation and tradition.

Dialectical structuralism.

Dependence, independence and freedom, in relation to colonization and decolonization.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [237]-253.

ISBN:

9024721296

OCLC:

6091096