Mundurucú Religion
Author | : Robert Francis Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Indians of South America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Francis Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Indians of South America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Francis Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Munduruku Indians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Francis Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780758127150 |
Author | : Wilhelm Dupré |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2011-10-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110870053 |
Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Author | : Robert Francis Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Income |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William H. Durham |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804721561 |
Charles Darwin's "On the Origins of Species" had two principal goals: to show that species had not been separately created and to show that natural selection had been the main force behind their proliferation and descent from common ancestors. In "Coevolution," the author proposes a powerful new theory of cultural evolution--that is, of the descent with modification of the shared conceptual systems we call "cultures"--that is parallel in many ways to Darwin's theory of organic evolution. The author suggests that a process of cultural selection, or preservation by preference, driven chiefly by choice or imposition depending on the circumstances, has been the main but not exclusive force of cultural change. He shows that this process gives rise to five major patterns or "modes" in which cultural change is at odds with genetic change. Each of the five modes is discussed in some detail and its existence confirmed through one or more case studies chosen for their heuristic value, the robustness of their data, and their broader implications. But "Coevolution" predicts not simply the existence of the five modes of gene-culture relations; it also predicts their relative importance in the ongoing dynamics of cultural change in particular cases. The case studies themselves are lucid and innovative reexaminations of an array of oft-pondered anthropological topics--plural marriage, sickle-cell anemia, basic color terms, adult lactose absorption, incest taboos, headhunting, and cannibalism. In a general case, the author's goal is to demonstrate that an evolutionary analysis of both genes and culture has much to contribute to our understanding of human diversity, particularly behavioral diversity, and thus to the resolution of age-old questions about nature and nurture, genes and culture.
Author | : Jeffery M. Paige |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520311736 |
"A welcome addition. They argue that rituals of reproduction in preindustrial societies are essentially political. In these societies, they say, men need to control the reproductive power of women in order to establish political power; where there is no law or central government, ritual is used as a way of gaining control. The type of ritual will vary, they conclude, according to the economic base of the society. . . .for those whoa re interested in the subject, this book is indispensable. Its thesis is challenging and the documentation is excellent. Paige and Paige have mad ean essential contribution to a long debate, and their theory is sure to stir new and lively controversy." --Science Digest This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author | : George Peter Murdock |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1980-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822976307 |
An important contribution to medical anthropology, this work defines the principal causes if illness that are reported throughout the world, distinguishing those involving natural causation from the more widely prevalent hypotheses advancing supernatural explanations.
Author | : Yolanda Murphy |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2004-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780231515887 |
When it originally appeared, this groundbreaking ethnography was one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology. The thirtieth anniversary edition of Women of the Forest reconfirms the book's importance for contemporary studies on gender and life in the Amazon. The book covers Yolanda and Robert Murphy's year of fieldwork among the Mundurucú people of Brazil in 1952. The Murphy's ethnographic analysis takes into account the historical, ecological, and cultural setting of the Mundurucú, including the mythology surrounding women, women's work and household life, marriage and child rearing, the effects of social change on the female role, sexual antagonism, and the means by which women compensate for their low social position. The new foreword—written collectively by renowned anthropologists who were all students of the Murphys—is both a tribute to the Murphys and a critical reflection on the continued relevance of their work today.
Author | : Betsy Nan Hess-Behrens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Child development |
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