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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780415738927
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (257 p)
    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Table of Contents; Chapter One: Theoretical Logic in Scientific Thought; 1. Introduction: Scientific Thought as a Two-Directional Continuum; 2. The Positivist Persuasion in Social Science: The Reduction of Theory to Fact; 3. The Failure of the "Human Studies" Alternative to Social Scientific Positivism; 4. Toward an Alternative Conception of Science; 4.1. Early Foundations; 4.2. Contemporary Elaborations
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. The Postpositivist Persuasion: Rehabilitation of the Theoretical6. Conclusion: The Need for a General Theoretical Logic in Sociology; Chapter Two: Theoretical Logic in Sociological Thought (1): The Failure of Contemporary Debate to Achieve Generality; 1. The Reduction of General Logic to Political Commitment: The Debate over Ideology; 2. The Reduction of General Logic to Methodological Choice: The Debate over Positivism; 3. The Reduction of General Logic to Empirical Proposition: The Debate over Conflict; 4. The Reduction of General Logic to Model Selection: The Debate over Functionalism
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Three: Theoretical Logic in Sociological Thought (2): Toward the Restoration of Generality1. The Epistemological Reference for Generalized Sociological Argument; 2. The Generalized Problem of Action; 2.1. The Presupposition of Rationality: ""Instrumental" Action and the Reduction of Ends to Means; 2.2. The Presupposition of Nonrationality: "Normative"" Action and the Relative Autonomy of Ends; 2.3. Other Approaches to Rationality and the Problem of Theoretical Reduction; 2.3.1. Rationality as Means/End Calculation; 2.3.2. Rationality as the Achievement of Particular Ends
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. The Generalized Problem of Order3.1. The Conflationary Dimensions of Current Approaches to Order: Empirical, Ideological, and Presuppositional Reduction; 3.2. The Individualist Presupposition in Its Instrumental and Normative Forms: Social Order as Residual Category; 3.3. The Collectivist Presupposition in Its Rationalist Form: Coercive Order and the Elimination of Freedom; 3.4. The Collectivist Presupposition in Its Normative Form; 3.4.1. Social Constraint and the Preservation of Voluntarism; 3.4.2. Voluntarism, Constraint, and the Reification of the Free Will Concept
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4.3. Voluntary Order and the Problem of Sociological IdealismChapter Four: Theoretical Logic as Objective Argument; 1. Objective Evaluation through Universal Reference: The "Structural" Status of Action and Order; 2. Objective Evaluation through Synthetic Standards: The Scope and Mutual Autonomy of Action and Order; 3. Objective Evaluation through Explicit Hierarchical Judgment: The Need for a Multidimensional Approach to Action and Order; Notes; Author-Citation Index; Subject Index
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    ISBN: 9780415738965
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (559 p)
    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) : Talcott Parsons
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: 〈P〉In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface: Theoretical Thought and Its Vicissitudes: The Achievements and Limitations of Classical Sociology; Chapter One: Theoretical Controversy and the Problematics of Parsonian Interpretation; Chapter Two: The Early Period: Interpretation and the Presuppositional Movement toward Multidimensionality; 1. Percept and Precept: Postpositivist Aspects of Parsons' Meta-Methodology; 2. Precepts as Presuppositions: The Synthetic Intention; 2.1. The Multidimensional Approach to Action
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2. The Multidimensional Approach to Collective Order3. Later Refinements of Multidimensional Order; 3.1. Generalization-Specification; 3.2. The Cybernetic Continuum; 3.3. Beyond the Classics; 4. Symbolic Order and Internalization: Later Refinements of the Voluntarism Problem; 5. Conclusion: ""Systematic Theory"" and Its Ecumenical Ambition; Chapter Three: The Middle Period: Specifying the Multidimensional Argument; 1. ""Specification"" and the Stages of Theoretical Development; 2. The Empirical Essays and the Pattern-Variable Critique of Instrumental Rationality
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Empirical Specification of Multidimensionality in the Later-Middle Work3.1. Personality, Culture, Society; 3.2. Allocation and Integration; 3.3. The Basic Structural Formations of Societies; 3.4. The Pattern Variables in Systemic Context; 3.5. Conclusion: The Social System and Its Critics; 4. The Change Theory and the Vicissitudes of Western Development; 4.1. The General Multidimensional Theory; 4.2. Rationalization, Anomie, and Revolution; 4.3. The Deviance Paradigm: Reformulating Strain and Its Control; 4.4. Conclusion: The Change Theory and Its Critics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Four: The Later Period (1): The Interchange Model and Parsons' Final Approach to Multidimensional Theory1. Interchange and Its Presuppositional Logic; 1.1. The Problem of Interpretation; 1.2. The Limitations of Parsons' Middle-Period Theorizing; 1.3. The Focus of Interchange: Refining the Multidimensional Model; 2. Economics as Interchange: Elaborating the Critique of Classical Economics; 3. Politics as Interchange; 3.1. Refining the Multidimensional Conceptualization; 3.2. Politics and the Combinatorial Process; 3.3. Beyond the Classics: Parsons' Durkheim-Weber Synthesis
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Integration as Interchange: ""Solidarity"" beyond Idealism4.1. Integration Defined: Solidarity and the Logic of Interchange; 4.2. The Nature of Solidary Interchange; 4.3. The Historical Production of Citizenship Solidarity; 4.4. The Interchange Theory of Integration and the Limitations of Parsons' Classical Predecessors; 5. Interchange and the Respecification of Parsons' Value Theory; 5.1. Value Interchange and the Differentiation of Scope; 5.2. ""Rationality"" and the University: Interchange, Value Specification, and Conflict; 5.3. The Value Theory and Its Critics
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.4. Multidimensional Values and the Dialogue with Durkheim and Weber
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    ISBN: 1306708249 , 9780415738934 , 9781306708241
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (262 p)
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    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) : Max Weber
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: 〈P〉The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As Weber was less able to avoid ambiguity, the author examines the weaknesses and efforts at 'paradigm revision'. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to Volume Three; Chapter One: Weber's Early Writings: Tentative Explorations beyond Idealism and Materialism; 1. The Historical and Ideological Background for Weber's Synthesis; 2. The Intellectual Background for Weber's Synthesis; 3. The Theoretical Achievement: Multidimensional Elements in Weber's Early Writings; 4. Conclusion: Theoretical Underdevelopment and Sociological Ambivalence; Chapter Two: The Later Writings and Weber's Multidimensional Theory of Society
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Synthetic Approach to Action and Order2. Multidimensional Theory and Comparative Method; 3. The Normative Definition of Rationality: Religion in the Comparative Studies; 4. Beyond Durkheim's Idealist Reduction: The Normative and Instrumental Determination of Religious Evolution; 5. Beyond Marx's Materialist Reduction: The Multidimensional Analysis of Social Class; 6. Normative Order and Empirical Conflict: The Multidimensional Analysis of Urban Revolution; 7. Conclusion: On the Generalized and Analytic Interpretation of Weber's Achievement
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Three: The Retreat from Multidimensionality (1): Presuppositional Dichotomization in the "Religious" Writings1. The Negative Case of The Religion of China; 2. Ancient Judaism as the Multidimensional Alternative; 3. Conclusion; Chapter Four: The Retreat from Multidimensionality (2): Instrumental Reduction in the "Political" Writings; 1. The Evolution from "Legitimation" to ""Domination" in the Formal Writings; 2. The Elaboration of Instrumental Domination in the Substantive Political History; 2.1. Charisma as a Framework for Domination
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2. The Instrumental Struggle for Traditional Domination and Its Transition to a Rational-Legal Form3. Conclusion: "Knowing Better" and the Imperatives of Theoretical Logic; Chapter Five: Legal-Rational Domination and the Utilitarian Structure of Modern Life; 1. Bureaucracy: The Impersonal Form of Hierarchical Control; 2. Democracy: The Inclusion of the Personal Struggle for Power; 3. Law: The External Reference of Formalized Norms; 4. Stratification: The Instrumental Competition for Generalized Means
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. A Liberal in Despair: The Ideological Moment in Weber's Instrumental Reduction of ModernityChapter Six: Weber Interpretation and Weberian Sociology: "Paradigm Revision" and Presuppositional Strain; Notes; Works of Weber; Author-Citation Index; Subject Index
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    ISBN: 9780415724227
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (592 p)
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    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx's very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim's case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to Volume Two; Chapter One: Prolegomena. General Theoretical Argument as Interpretation: The Critical Role of "Readings"; Part One Collective Order and the Ambiguity about Action; Chapter Two: Marx's First Phase (1): From Moral Criticism to External Necessity; 1. Reduction and Conflation in Marxist Interpretation; 2. "Early Writings"": From Normative Tension to Utilitarian Calculation; 2.1. Moral Criticism and the Appeal to Universal Norms: The Starting Point
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2. Natural Necessity and the Appeal to Self Interest: The Initial Transition2.3. Alienation and the Submission to Material Order: The Ambivalent Acceptance of Political Economy in the 1844 Manuscripts; 2.3.1. The Challenge of the "Theses on Feuerbach": Philosophical Multidimensionality Reaffirmed as Species-Being; 2.3.2. The Tentative Solution: "Natural Man" and the Instrumental Logic of Political Economy; 2.3.3. The Hanging Thread: The Subjective Foundations of Alienation and the Problem of the Transition to Communism
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Three: Marx's First Phase (2): The Attack on Moral Criticism and the Origins of a Historical Materialism1. The Years of Transition; 1.1. The Attack on Cultural "Generality" and the End of Philosophy; 1.2. Transforming the Status of "Alienation": The Attack on Subjectivity in the Transition to Communism; 1.3. The Residual Category of Later Marxism: Inexplicable Normative Action; 2. Maturity: Rational Action and Coercive Order in The Communist Manifesto; 3. Conclusion: Interpretive Errors and Marx's True Contribution
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Four: Durkheim's First Phase (1): The Ambiguous Transition from Voluntary Morality to Morality as External Constraint1. Reduction and Conflation in Durkheimian Interpretation; 2. Durkheim's Early Writings: The Unsuccessful Search for Voluntary Morality; 2.1. Social Crisis and the Search for a Responsive Collectivism; 2.2. The Critique of Classical Economy: Morality as the Collectivist Alternative; 2.3. Durkheim's Contradictory Approaches to Moral Order: Theoretical Ambivalence and the Movement toward an Antivoluntaristic Determinism
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.1. The Problem of Action: Durkheim's Ambiguous Critique of Egoistic Rationality2.3.2. The Problem of Order: The Tortuous Path toward Collective Control; 2.4. Involuntary Morality and Durkheim's First Sociology; 2.5. Conclusion: Mechanical Order and Durkheim's Relation to the Instrumentalist Tradition; Chapter Five: Durkheim's First Phase (2): The Division of Labor in Society as the Attempt to Reconcile Instrumental Order with Freedom; 1. "Material Individualism" as the Antidote to Mechanical Order: The Division of Labor in the Early Sociological Essays
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Empirical Discovery and Theoretical Ambivalence in The Division of Labor in Society
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    ISBN: 9780415128964
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (254 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Religion: A Humanist Interpretation
    DDC: 200.1
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    Abstract: Treats religion as a human art, capable of great intellectual and artistic achievements
    Description / Table of Contents: Religion: a Humanist Interpretation; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 An anthropological approach to the study of religion; Chapter 2 Religious belief and personal adjustment; Chapter 3 Spiritual aroma? Religion and politics; Chapter 4 Gods and God: monotheism and polytheism; Chapter 5 Offering and sacrifice: problems of organization; Chapter 6 Ritual and drama in Malay spirit mediumship; Chapter 7 Faith and scepticism in Kelantan village magic; Chapter 8 Paradox in religious systems; Chapter 9 The truth of religion?; Notes; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415694667
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (467 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
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    Parallel Title: Print version Symbols (Routledge Revivals) : Public and Private
    DDC: 301.2/1
    Keywords: Symbolism ; Symbolism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book first published in 1973 offers a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour.The study of symbolism is popular nowadays and anthropologists have made substantial contributions to it. Raymond Firth has long been internationally known for his field research in the Solomons and Malaysia, and for his theoretical work on kinship, economics and religion. Here from a new angle, he has produced a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour.Professor Firth examines definitions of symbol. He traces the history of scientific inquiry into the symbolism of religious cu
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Symbols; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; I; 1. An Anthropologist's Reflections on Symbolic Usage; 2. A Question of Terms: Scope and Meaning of 'Symbol'; 3. Development of Anthropological Interest in Symbols; 4. Crystallization of Problems of Symbol Theory; 5. Modern Anthropological Views of Symbolic Processes; 6. Private Symbols and Public Reactions; II; 7. Food Symbolism in a Pre-Industrial Society; 8. Hair as Private Asset and Public Symbol; 9. Bodily Symbols of Greeting and Parting; 10. Symbolism of Flags; 11. Symbolism in Giving and Getting
    Description / Table of Contents: 12. Symbol and SubstanceReferences; Index;
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    ISBN: 9780415330190
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (305 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Themes in Economic Anthropology
    DDC: 301.5
    Keywords: Economic anthropology ; Economic anthropology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The main focus of the volume - the processes of choice and decision-making in different economic systems - offers exceptional scope for the convergence of economic and anthropological perspectives. It concentrates on transactions that both express and influence social relationships and values. 〈BR〉 Covering a wide geographic area there are specific studies on societies in Equatorial Africa, Colombia, South India and the Balkans.〈BR〉 First published in 1967
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Editor's Preface; RAYMOND FIRTH; Themes in Economic Anthropology: A General Comment; Economic viewpoints; Economics of the gift; Problems of valuation; Economic anthropology in the modern world; Notes; References; LEONARD JOY; One Economist's View of the Relationship betweenEconomics and Anthropology; Social and economic determinants of behaviour; Implications of economic models for anthropology; Relevance of economic analysis; Equilibrium analysis; Complexity of choice situations; Communication of anthropologists with economists; Notes; References
    Description / Table of Contents: RONALD FRANKENBERGEconomic Anthropology: One Anthropologist's View; A prefatory thought; What is economic anthropology?; Neo-classical views: e.g. the contribution of RaymondFirth; Berliner's critique; Attack I: Robbins Burling and the individual; Counter-attack I: Fredrik Barth, Robert Paine, andthe entrepreneurial process; Attack II: Dalton, Polanyi, and the inapplicability ofeconomic theory; Counter-attack II: Salisbury and the criterion oflabourtime; Counter-attack III: Scarlett Epstein on change in twopeasant villages in India; Attack III: Sahlins and the evolution of culture
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusions - magnificent dynamicsNotes; References; PERCY S. COHEN; Economic Analysis and Economic Man: Some Commentson a Controversy; Introduction; A brief history of the debate; Types of economic analysis; Economic man and the social system; Conclusion; Notes; References; MARY DOUGLAS; Primitive Rationing: A Study in Controlled Exchange; Controlled and competitive economies; Primitive coupon systems; Discontinuity in the demand function; Controlled exchange; References; FREDRIK BARTH; Economic Spheres in Darfur; Physical background; Subsistence; Institutional forms; Economic spheres
    Description / Table of Contents: Patterns and alternatives of allocationPossibilities for growth; Spheres and barriers; Management and stratification; Discrepancies of evaluation; Innovating activity; Concluding remark; Notes; References; LEONARD JOY; An Economic Homologue of Barth's Presentation ofEconomic Spheres in Darfur; Analytical preliminaries; Explanation of the matrix; Value of matrix formulation; Quantification; Conclusion; Notes; References; SUTTI ORTIZ; The Structure of Decision-making among Indians ofColombia; Introduction; The Paez Indians; The organizational context of economic relations; Managerial decisions
    Description / Table of Contents: ConclusionsNotes; References; SCARLETT EPSTEIN; Productive Efficiency and Customary Systems of Rewardsin Rural South India; Introduction; The Jajmani system; Types of traditional labour relations; Customary systems of rewards and improved productiontechniques; Average product and customary rewards; Conclusion; Note; References; LORRAINE BARIC; Traditional Groups and New Economic Opportunities inRural Yugoslavia; The institutional framework; Alternative possibilities for economic action; Social variables; Flexibility in social manoeuvre; The decline of traditional zadrugas; Conclusion; Notes
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    ISBN: 9781136537172 , 1136537171
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Firth, Raymond Primitive Polynesian Economy
    DDC: 330.9935
    Keywords: Geschichte 1935 ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference ; Economic anthropology ; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Economic anthropology ; Sozialanthropologie ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Wirtschaftssystem ; Polynesier ; Polynesien ; Polynesien ; Sozialanthropologie ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Geschichte 1935 ; Polynesien ; Wirtschaft ; Polynesier ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftssystem
    Description / Table of Contents: A great classic of British anthropology, Primitive Polynesian Economy is structured as follows: Problems of Primitive Economics Food and Population in Tikopia Knowledge, Technique and Economic Lore The Labour Situation Ritual in Productive Activity Economic Functions of the Chiefs Property and Capital in Production Principles of Distribution and Payment Exchange and Value Characteristics of a Primitive Economy First published in 1939
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    ISBN: 9781136538018 , 1136538011
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Firth, Raymond We the Tikopia : A sociological study of kinship in primitive Polynesia
    DDC: 572.9935
    Keywords: Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Consanguinity ; Families ; Primitive societies ; SCIENCE ; Life Sciences ; Biochemistry ; Consanguinity ; Families ; Primitive societies ; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature. The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system; and an exhaustive and sophisticated study of Polynesian social institutions. First published in 1936
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    ISBN: 9780415694681
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (386 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Tikopia Ritual and Belief (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 390.0996
    Keywords: Rites and ceremonies ; Polynesia ; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1967, this book gives some of the fruits of the author's study of Tikopia ways of thought as the result of three field expeditions. Most Polynesians became Christians more than a century ago but Tikopia had a substantial pagan population until quite recent years. This book of essays describes rites and beliefs of a people who still maintained their traditional institutions remote from civilization. Studies of totemism, of magic and of beliefs in the fate of the soul in the afterworld, not only throw new light on Polynesian attitudes but also contribute some novel ideas to th
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Tikopia Ritual and Belief; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1. Outline of Tikopia Culture; 2. Ceremonies for Children; 3. Privilege Ceremonies; 4. Bond Friendship; 5. Suicide and Risk-Taking; 6. Rumour in a Primitive Society with A Note on the Theory of 'Cargo' Cults; 7. The Meaning of Dreams; 8. The Analysis of Mana: An Empirical Approach; 9. The Sociology of 'Magic'; 10. Ritual Adzes in Tikopia; 11. Totemism in Polynesia; 12. Economics and Ritual in Sago Extraction; 13. The Plasticity of Myth
    Description / Table of Contents: 14. Individual Fantasy and Social Norms: Seances with Spirit Mediums15. The Fate of the Soul; 16. A Commentary; INDEX;
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    Parallel Title: Print version Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 390.0899442
    Keywords: Economic anthropology ; New Zealand ; Maori (New Zealand people) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1929, Raymond Firth's original and insightful study offers an incredibly detailed account of the social and economic organisation of the Maori people before their contact with Western civilisation.Bridging the gap between anthropology and economics, the work covers the class structure, land system, industry, methods of co-operative labour, exchange and distribution, and the psychological foundations of Maori society. This reissue will be welcomed by all students of anthropology and anyone interested the history of the Maori people
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori; Copyright Page; Contents; I. The Study of Primitive Economics; II. The Maori And His Economic Resources; III. Social Structure and Economic Organization; IV. The Psychology of Work; V. The Nature of Maori Industry; VI. The Organization of Production; VII. Magic in Economics; VIII. The Distribution of Goods and Payment for Labour; IX. The Feast; X. The Ownership and Command of Wealth; XI. The Land; XII. The Exchange of Gifts; XIII. Native Tracks and Canoe-Ways; XIV. The Economic Aspect of Culture Change; XV. The Maori Community
    Description / Table of Contents: Bibliography(i) The literature of Primitive Economics; (ii) New Zealand Iiterature; Index;
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    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Malay Fishermen
    DDC: 306.309595
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    Abstract: The social, economic and political impact of the decline of the old colonial powers in Africa, India and the Middle East are still areas of vast research and debate. Much of the key issues concerning this area are discussed in this book
    Description / Table of Contents: MALAY FISHERMEN: THEIR PEASANT ECONOMY; Copyright; Contents; Losses of Middlemen; Preface; Chapter I. The Fishing Industry In Malaya And Indonesia; General Character of Malayo-lndonesian Sea Fishing; Market Relations; Incomes; Practical Problems in the Fishing Industry; Some Theoretical Considerations; Structure of an Oriental Peasant Economy; Chapter II. Economics Of The Industry In Two Malay States (KelantanRengganu); General Conditions and Importance; Fishing Population and Output; Equipment-Details of Types and Cos; Capital Invested in Fishing Boats and Gear; Finance of Boats and Nets
    Description / Table of Contents: Fish-buying and Money-lendingChapter III.Structure Of A Sample Fishing Community; The Perupok Area, Kelantan; Its Economic History; Composition of Its Population; External Economic Relationships; Distribution by Sex and "" Economic Stages ""; Occupational Distribution; Chapter IV. Planning And Organization Of Fishing Activities; Preferences in the Use of Labour and Capita; The Use of Time In Lift-net Fishing; Organization of Lift-net Fishing; The Role of the Fishing Expert; The Expert and his Crew; Fluctuations in Lift-net Crews; Relations between Fishing Expert and Carrier Agent
    Description / Table of Contents: Strain and Re-alignment in Net-groupsChanges in Boat-grouping of Nets; Relations of Fishing Experts with One Another; The Ritual Factor in Organization; Chapter V. Ownership Of Equipment And Management Of Capital; The Place of Capital in the Peasant Economy; Volume of Investment in Fishing Equipment; Ownership of Equipment; Levels of Individual Boat and Net Capital; Management of Capital by Individuals; History of One Man's Investments; Financing the Production and Maintenance of Equipment; The Entrepreneur in Net Manufacture; Chapter VI.The Credit System In Financing Production
    Description / Table of Contents: Seasonal AdvancesFriendly Loans; Interest-bearing Loans; Interest Disguised as Profit-sharing; Mobilization of Credit through Capital Expenditure; Credit in the Marketing of Goods; ChapterVII. Marketing Organization; The Middlemen; Wholesale Buying on the Beach; Samples of Bargaining Technique; Features of Bargaining; Graphs of Price Determination; Cash, Credit, and Insurance against Price Reduction; Arrangements among the Wholesale Dealers; Intermediate and Retail Sellin; The Market for Cured Fish; Inland Markets for Fish; Fluctuations in Fish Prices; Profits and Summary
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter VIII.The System Of Distributing EarningsSharing out the Earnings from the Lift-net; Value of the Shares; Distribution of Earnings from other Types of Fishing; Fish for Home Consumption and Petty Cash; The Basic Principles of Distribution; ChapterIX. Output And Levels Of Income; Estimated Value of Annual Output; Levels of Output from Lift-nets; Levels of Output in Other Types of Fishing; Importance of the Output Figures; Levels of Income; Chapter X. Fishermen In The General Peasant Economy; Supplementary Sources of Fishermen's Income; Samples of Household Income
    Description / Table of Contents: Peasant Standards of Living
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9781136538018 , 9780415330206
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (667 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 572.9935
    Keywords: Consanguinity ; Families ; Primitive societies ; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature. The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system; and an exhaustive and sophisticated study of Polynesian social institutions. First published in 1936.
    Abstract: Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- PREFACE by BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION -- I. IN PRIMITIVE POLYNESIA -- II. ADJUSTMENT TO CIVILIZATION -- III. VILLAGE LIFE -- IV. HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY -- V. PERSONAL RELATIONS IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE -- VI. THE KIN OF FATHER AND MOTHER -- VII. THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP -- VIII. DIRGES FOR DEAD KIN -- IX. CO-OPERATION AND CONSTRAINT IN MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS -- X. "HOUSE" AND CLAN -- XI. PRINCIPLES OF LAND TENURE -- XII. A MODERN POPULAl'ION PROBLEM -- XIII. FIRING l'HE OVENS OF YOUl'H -- XIV. SOCIOLOGY OF SEX -- XV. MARRIAGE BY CAPl'URE -- XVI. KINSHIP AND SOCIAL STABILITY -- APPENDIX -- lNDEX.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; PREFACE by BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION; I. IN PRIMITIVE POLYNESIA; II. ADJUSTMENT TO CIVILIZATION; III. VILLAGE LIFE; IV. HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY; V. PERSONAL RELATIONS IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE; VI. THE KIN OF FATHER AND MOTHER; VII. THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP; VIII. DIRGES FOR DEAD KIN; IX. CO-OPERATION AND CONSTRAINT IN MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS; X. ""HOUSE"" AND CLAN; XI. PRINCIPLES OF LAND TENURE; XII. A MODERN POPULAl'ION PROBLEM; XIII. FIRING l'HE OVENS OF YOUl'H; XIV. SOCIOLOGY OF SEX
    Description / Table of Contents: XV. MARRIAGE BY CAPl'UREXVI. KINSHIP AND SOCIAL STABILITY; APPENDIX; lNDEX
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