Context and meaning in cultural anthropology /
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Free Press,
1965
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction, by R.D. Folgelson and M.E. Spiro.--Ethnology and social organization. Childhood among the Yakutat Tlingit, by F. De Laguna. Algonkian social organization, by G.P. Murdock.--Religion. The self, the behavioral environment, and the theory of spirit possession, by E. Bourguignon. Religion, death, and evolutionary adaptation, by T. Dobzhansky. Psychological theories of windigo "psychosis" and a preliminary application of a models approach, by R.D. Folgelson. Religious systems as culturally constituted defense mechanisms, by M.E. Spiro.--Social character. An agrarian "fighter," by P. Friedrich. An approach to the historical study of national character, by M.G. Murphey. The life and death of a myth, by L. Wylie.