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Author_Horace Kallen
Author_Melford E. Spiro
Black Bream
Bororo Myth
Burmese Monks
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Cognitive Salience
comparative social analysis
cross-cultural human behavior research
Cultural Doctrines
Cultural Propositions
Cultural Symbol Systems
defense mechanisms theory
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evolutionary psychology
gender role development
Incestuous Attachment
Incomplete Repression
Kiryat Yedidim
Leach's Arguments
Leach’s Arguments
Mother Son Incest
Mother Son Relationship
Motivational Dispositions
Normative Cultural Relativism
Nuclear Family Incest
Physiological Paternity
psychological anthropology
religious symbolism studies
Sex Role Differentiation
Sexual Aversion
Social System
Superhuman Beings
Symbolic Anthropology
Theravada Buddhism
Virgin Birth
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138521827
- Weight: 790g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the anthropology department in 1968. Among the many books he has published are Anthropological Other or Burmese Brother? and Oedipus in the Trobrtands.
