The nature of culture / by A. L. Kroeber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960, author.

Contributor:

University of Chicago. Press, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Culture.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1952.

Contents:

1. Theory of culture: Explanations of cause and origin, 1901

Cause of the belief in use inheritance, 1916

The superorganic, 1917

The possibility of a social psychology, 1918

Historical reconstruction of culture growths and organic evolution, 1931

History and science in anthropology, 1935

So-called social science, 1936

Historical context, reconstruction, and interpretation, 1938

Structure, function, and pattern in biology and anthropology, 1943

History and evolution, 1946

Culture, events, and individuals, 1946

Causes in culture, 1947

White's view of culture, 1948

The concept of culture in science, 1949

Values as a subject of natural science inquiry, 1949

A half-century of anthropology, 1950

The history and present orientation of cultural anthropology, 1950

Reality culture and value culture, 1950/1951

2. Kinship and social structure: Classificatory systems of relationship, 1909 Zuni clan functioning, 1917

Kinship in the Philippines, 1917

Process in the Chinese kinship system, 1933

Yurok and neighboring kin term systems, 1934

Kinship and history, 1936

Athabascan kin term systems, 1937

Basic and secondary patterns of social structure ("1938"), 1939

The societies of primitive man, 1942

3. On American Indians: Zuni culture sequences, 1916

Earth-tongue Mohave, 1922

Native culture of the Southwest, 1928

Characteristics of the Seri Indians, 1931

Yurok marriages, with T.T. Waterman, 1934

Areal types of American Indian culture and their growth, 1939

Salt, dogs, tobacco, 1941

The Chibcha, 1946

Great art styles of ancient South America, 1951

4. Psychologically slanted: Totem and taboo: an ethnologic psychoanalysis, 1920

Totem and taboo in retrospect, 1939

Psychosis or social sanction, 1940

The use of autobiographical evidence, 1945onship, 1909 A Southwestern personality type, 1947

5. History and process in civilization: Order in changes of fashion, 1919

Cultural intensity and climax, 1939

Stimulus diffusion, 1940

Three centuries of women' s dress fashions, a quantitative analysis with Jane Richardson, 1940

Toynbee's A study of history, 1943

The ancient Oikoumene as a historic culture aggregate ("1945"), 1946

Culture groupings in Asia, 1947

Is Western civilization disintegrating or reconstituting?, 1951

The novel in Asia and Europe, 1951.

Notes:

"©1952 by the University of Chicago"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center copy retains dust jacket.

Kislak Center copy is fifth impression 1972.

OCLC:

487751