The Study of Culture At a Distance

Herausgeber: Mead, Margaret

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Produktbeschreibung

The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world. Facing enemies with unfamiliar cultural traditions, the U.S. government turned to anthropologists for insight. The result was a research effort that continued long after the war, aimed, in the words of Margaret Mead, at analyzing the cultural..

Produktdetails

• Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Culture
• Verlag: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9781571812162
• ISBN-10: 1571812164
• Artikelnr.: 35667463

Autorenporträt

Margaret Mead served as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1925 to 1969. She began her career with a study of youth and adolescence in Samoan society, published as Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). She published prolifically, becoming a seminal figure in anthropology, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
PART I: INTRODUCTION
The Study of Culture at a Distance
Margaret Mead
Chapter 1. The Purpose and Scope of This Manual
Chapter 2. The Needed Skills and Their Place in Cultural Analysis
Chapter 3. Theory and Practice
* Theory and Methods Derived from Anthropology
* Theory and Methods Derived from Other Disciplines
Chapter 4. Anthropological Models for the Study of Culture at a Distance
* The Single Informant
* The Study of Living Communities
PART II: NATIONAL CHARACTER
National Character: Theory and Practice
Geoffrey Gorer
PART III: GROUP RESEARCH
A: The Organization of Group Research
Margaret Mead
B: Five Illustrations of Groups at Work
Introduction
Rhoda Métraux
Chapter 1. Formulation of a Working Hypothesis: French Dyadic Relationships
Chapter 2. Formulation of a Working Hypothesis: The Swaddling Hypothesis
Chapter 3. Intragroup Interviewing: On thc Definition of Terms
* The Chinese First Teacher
* Sincerity
Chapter 4. Relations between Men and Women: Has the Woman a Soul?
* The Position of the Woman
* Woman's Position Redefined
Chapter 5. Themes in Italian Culture: A First Discussion
PART IV: WORK WITH INFORMANTS
A: Informants in Group Research
Rhoda Métraux
B: Three Illustrations of Written Work by Informants
I. Polish Personality
* Does Responsibility Mean Command?
* Attitudes toward Various Parts of the Body
* When Is a Pole Allowed to Be Soft?
II. My Inner Self
III. Russian Sensory Images
* On the Sense of Touch 
* On the Sense of Smell
* On the Sense of Hearing
C: Ten Illustrations of Interviews with Informants
I: Interview with a Syrian Woman: Life History
II: Interview with a Syrian Man: Life History
III: Interview with a Polish Peasant Woman: Parents and Children
IV: Interview with a French Couple: Dyadic Relations in the Foyer
V: nterview with a Young Frenchman: Friendship
VI: Interview with a Chinese Scholar: Friendship
VII: Interview with Two Jewish Men: Sheyneh and Prosteh Yiden
VIII: Interview with Two Jewish Women: Sheyneh and Prosteh Yiden
IX: Interview with a Russian Actor: Interpretation of Roles
X: Interview with Four Russians: Images of Hate, Guilt, and Love
PART V: WRITTEN AND ORAL LITERATURE
Introduction
Rhoda Métraux
Chapter 1. Relations between Men and Women in Chinese Stories
Virginia Heyer
Chapter 2. The Image of the Leader in Soviet "Post-October Folklore
Nelly Schargo Hoyt
Chapter 3. A Russian Double Image Cluster: "Not-So: So"
* The "Not-So: So" Images in Russian Folklore
Nelly Schargo Hoyt
* Rumor Cluster and Image Cluster: Detail from Group Discussion
* Russian "Visual" Thinking
Leopold H. Haimson
Chapter 4. Trends in Affectlessness
Nathan Leites
PART VI: FILM ANALYSIS
A: Movie Analysis in the Study of Culture
Martha Wolfenstein
B: Five Illustrations of Film Analysis
Introduction
Rhoda Métraux
I: Notes on an Italian Film, The Tragic Hunt
Martha Wolfenstein
II: Notes on Two French Films
* The Father Figure in Panique
Jane Belo
* Notes on La Belle et La Bête
Geoffrey Gorer
III: An Analysis of Seven Cantonese Films
John Hast Weakland
IV: An Analysis of the Soviet Film The Young Guard
* Plot Summary
Margaret Mead
* Comparison of the Film and the Novel
Vera Schwarz (Alexandrova)
V: An Analysis of the Nazi Film Hltlerjunge Quex
Gregory Bateson
PART VII: PROJECTIVE TESTS
A: The Use of Projective Tests in Group Research
Margaret Mead
B: Two Illustrations of the Use of Projective Tests with Chinese Subjects
           
* Visual Perception and Spatial Organization: A Study of Performance on
the Horn-Hellersberg Test by Chinese Subjects
Elisabeth F. Hellersberg
* Some Aspects of Personality of Chinese as Revealed by the Rorschach
Test
Theodora M. Abel and Francis L. K. Hsu
PART VIII: IMAGERY
Resonance in Imagery
Rhode Métraux
PART IX: END LINKAGE: AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH
A: History of the Approach
Margaret Mead
B: Formulation of End Linkage
Gregory Bateson
C: Four Applications of End Linkage Analysis
* Applications of End Linkage Formulations to Anglo-American
* Relations in World War II
Margaret Mead
* Male Dominance in Thai Culture
Ruth Benedict
* Non-Reciprocity among East European Jews
Natalie F. Joffe
* A Note on the Spectator in French Culture
Rhoda Métraux
PART X: APPLICATIONS OF STUDIES OF CULTURE AT A DISTANCE
A: Political Applications of Studies of Culture at a Distance
Margaret Mead
B: Seven Applications of Studies of Culture at a Distance
* Japanese Character Structure and Propaganda
Geoffrey Gorer
* Some Problems of Cross-Cultural Communication between Britain and the
United States: Based upon Lecturing in Britain and the United States
during World War II
Margaret Mead
* History as It Appears to Rumanians
Ruth Benedict
* Courage: Cumulative Effects of Sacrifice
Sula Benet
* Chinese Family Images in International Affairs
John Hast Weakland
* The Soviet Style of Chess
Leopold II. Haimson
* The Soviet Image of Corruption
Martha Wolfenstein
APPENDIXES
 
Appendix A: Recommendations for the Organization of Group Research
Margaret Mead
Appendix B: A List of Participants in Columbia University Research in
Contemporary Cultures and Successor Projects
Bibliography
Index