Malinowski

A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays

[1944]

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780415488372
• ISBN-10: 0415488370
• Artikelnr.: 26679754

Autorenporträt

Bronislaw Malinowski, Huntington Cairns

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 A Scientific Theory of Culture
Chapter I Culture as the Subject of Scientific Investigation
Chapter II A Minimum Definition of Science for the Humanist
Chapter III Concepts and Methods of Anthropology
Chapter IV What is Culture?
Chapter V Theory of Organized Behavior
Chapter VI The Concrete Isolates of Organized Behavior
Chapter VII The Functional Analysis of Culture
Chapter VIII What is Human Nature?
Chapter IX The Derivation of Cultural Needs
Chapter X Basic Needs and Cultural Responses
Chapter XI The Nature of Derived Needs
Chapter XII The Integrative Imperatives of Human Culture
Chapter XIII The Instrumentally Implemented Vital Sequence
Part 2 The Functional Theory
Chapter Ia Embryology and Obstetrics
Chapter IIa General Axioms of Functionalism
Chapter IIIa Function Defined
Chapter IVa The Rough Approach to Functionalism
Chapter Va The Legitimate Isolates of Cultural Analysis
Chapter VIa The Structure of an Institution
Chapter VIIa The Concept of Function
Chapter VIIIa The Theory of Needs
Chapter IXa Conclusions
Part 3 Sir James George Frazer: A Biographical Appreciation
Introduction
Chapter Ib The Paradox of Frazer's Personality and Work
Chapter IIb Frazer's Position in the Development of Ethnological Theory
Chapter IIIb Critical Analysis of Some Special Theories
Chapter IVb Whither Anthropology?