A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays

A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays
Author: Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2014-03-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317833872

Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture.

A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays

A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays
Author: Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469626098

Malinowski presents in this book his definitive statement of the theory of functionalism. As the essential clue to the understanding of human behavior, primitive and civilized, he analyzes the functional principle that culture is an examination of the fundamentals of anthropology for the purpose of constructing a general system to explain the facts of culture by this principle. Originally published 1944. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Man and Culture

Man and Culture
Author: Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136451927

This volume is a reassessment of Malinowski's work by a group of his former pupils and colleagues. A frank evaluation, not a eulogy, it examines the real and lasting importance of Malinowski's contribution to a range of subjects.

Theology in a Global Context

Theology in a Global Context
Author: Hans Schwarz
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2005-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802829863

In this book, Hans Schwarz leads us into the web of Christian theology's recent past from Kant and Schleiermacher to Mbiti and Zizoulas, pointing out all the theologians of the last two hundred years who have had a major impact beyond their own context. With an eye to the blending of theology and biography, Schwarz draws the lines of connection between theologians, their history, and wider theological movements. - Publisher.

An Ethnography of the Goodman Building

An Ethnography of the Goodman Building
Author: Niccolo Caldararo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2019-04-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030122859

“An Ethnography of the Goodman Building vividly incorporates a wide variety of methods to tell the story of class struggle in a building, neighborhood, and city that is replicated globally. I read it as a number of boxes inside each other opened in the course of reading. Caldararo recounts the building’s personal “biography” to convey not only the “facts about,” but the “feelings about” the flesh and blood of the building and its surrounding neighborhood.” —Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, USA “This unique contribution to the field of urban and regional studies counteracts current trends in the ethnographies of urban movements by offering, with great hindsight, an analysis from a physical space, and from first-hand experience. The focal point is one building, and the author is a former tenant. This perspective is appealing, especially in an era of global connections where macro social movements are on the front line of urban life and research.” —Nathalie Boucher, Director and Researcher, Respire, and Affiliated Professor Assistant, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Canada. Through in-depth analysis and narrative investigation of an actual building occupation, Niccolo Caldararo seeks to not only offer an historical account of the Goodman Building in San Francisco, but also focus on the active resistance tactics of its residents from the 1960s to the 1980s. Taking as its focal point the building itself, the volume weaves in and out of every life involved and the struggles that surround it—San Francisco’s urban renewal, ethnic clearing, gentrification, and municipal governance at a time of booming urban growth. Caldararo, a tenant at the center of its strikes and activities, provides a unique perspective that counteracts current trends in ethnographies of urban movements by grounding its analysis in physical and tangible space.

Author and Title Catalog

Author and Title Catalog
Author: Stanford University. Libraries. J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1967
Genre: Library catalogs
ISBN:

Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa

Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa
Author: Max Gluckman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136528563

These essays are mainly concerned with the development of some of Max Gluckman's ideas about African politics. He regarded frequent rebellions to replace incumbents of political offices (as against revolutions to alter the structure of offices) as inherent in these politics. Later he connected this situation with modes of husbandry, problems of the devolution of power, types of weapons and the law of treason. He advanced to a general theory of ritual, as well as to general propositions about the position of officials representing conflicting interests within a hierarchy, typified by the African chief under colonial rule. Originally published in 1963.