Murray J. Leaf, Dwight Read

Human Thought and Social Organization

Anthropology on a New Plane

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Two characteristics of human beings as a species are: the elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism, and the pluralistic nature of our systems of social organization. This book shows how these two characteristics are related by determining the conceptual structures that are fundamental to human thought and social organization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780739170281
• ISBN-10: 0739170287
• Artikelnr.: 35054179

Autorenporträt

Murray J. Leaf is professor of anthropology and political economy at the University of Texas at Dallas and author of several books, including Human Organizations and Social Theory. Dwight W. Read is distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Artifact Classification: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Orthography and Notation List of Figures and Tables Preface
1. Introduction 2. Assumptions 3. The Organizational Rubicon of the Upper
Paleolithic 4. Fundamentals of Human Social Organization 5. Elicitation of
Kinship Terminology Structure 6. Theory of Kinship Terminology Structures
7. Construction of a Kinship Algebra Model 8. Kin Terminology and Social
Structure: The Kariera Case 9. Formal Algebraic Construction of the Kariera
Terminology 10. The Physical Farm Budget: a Social Charter 11. Idea-Systems
and Communication Theory 12. Conclusion References Index About the Authors