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035 $a(OCoLC)42248891
050 4 $aGN316$b.M66 1998
082 04 $a306$bT
100 1 $aMoore, Alexander.
245 10 $aCultural anthropology :$bthe field study of human beings /$cAlexander Moore.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aSan Diego, Calif. :$bCollegiate Press,$c©1998.
300 $axvi, 560 pages :$billustrations, maps, plans ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 537-549) and index.
505 0 $apt. 1. Anthropology, understanding the human primate. Anthropology as encounter with unknown peoples -- Overview of cultural anthropology : a succession of cultures and communities -- Field work -- The primate homo sapiens : our place in nature -- pt. 2. Band communities and elemental human institutions. The band community : synchronizing human activity cycles for group cooperation -- Ritual and myth -- The human family : an emergent institution in band communities -- Values and exchange : bands and the original economy.
505 0 $apt. 3. Tribes and emergent institutions. Extending the human family and forming tribal communities : households and descent groups among tribal people -- Tribal warfare complexes : aggressive sequences and balanced negative exchanges -- Feasting and trading systems : the economics of redistribution and trading rings -- Tribal politics : leadership and its rewards -- Shamans and prophets : catalysts for therapy and cultural change -- pt. 4. Traditional civilizations. Urban cultures and communities : the nature of early civilization -- The original bureaucracies -- Folk cultures and communities : civilized "insolents" and peasants -- pt. 5. The anthropology of modern life. The market and the modern metropolis : a new system of exchange and the rise of commercial industrial cities -- Corporate bureaucracy and the culture of modern work -- Modernity and culture -- Epilogue: applied anthropology and the policy process.
520 $a"The framework on which this book hangs is an updated version of the community study method as network, discerned at the expanding "gas phase" of our species' random walk over the earth, through our settling down into trading and warring tribal societies through the mesolithic and neolithic transitions, into our densification into urban states and civilizations, and finally at our emergence as a metropolitan species of unparalleled population aggregations."--Preface.
650 0 $aAnthropology.
650 0 $aEthnology.
650 0 $aHuman beings.
650 7 $aAnthropology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00810196
650 7 $aEthnology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00916106
650 7 $aHuman beings.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00962832
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