xiii, 602 pages 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references

The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man / Clifford Geertz -- Language and evolution / Joseph H. Greenberg -- Culture as adaptation / Yehudi A. Cohen -- What hunters do for a living, or How to make out on scarce resources / Richard B. Lee -- The Great Basin Shoshonean indians : an example of a family level of sociocultural integration / Julian H. Steward -- Steel axes for stone age Australians / Lauriston Sharp -- Variation in habitat and culture on the Northwest Coast / Wayne Suttles -- Forms of kinship / Elman R. Service -- The transition from hunting to horticulture in the Amazon Basin / Robert L. Carneiro -- An ethnoecological approach to shifting agriculture / Harold C. Conklin -- Economic alternatives in arid lands : a case study of the Pima and Papago indians / Robert A. Hackenberg -- The structural poses of 18th-century Cherokee villages / Frederick O. Gearing -- Land and labor / C. Daryll Forde -- The segmentary lineage : an organization of predatory expansion / Marshall D. Sahlins -- The Lele of Kasia / mary Douglas -- Tappers and trappers : parallel process in acculturation / Robert F. Murphy and Julian H. Steward -- Political organization among nomadic peoples / Philip C. Salzman -- The role of the state in peasant-nomad mutualism / Daniel G. Bates -- Theory and strategy in the study of cultural adaptability / Walter Goldschmidt -- Ecology and cultural continuity as contributing factors in the social organization of the Plains indians / Symmes C. Oliver -- The Jie of Uganda ; The Turkana / P.H. Gulliver -- The Kazak : horse and sheep herders of Central Asia / C. Daryll Forde -- "Cultural" vs. "ecological" factors in the expression of values, attitudes, and personality characteristics / Robert B. Edgerton -- Ecologic relationships of ethnic groups in Swat, North Pakistan / Fredrik Barth -- Chieftainship / Fredrik Barth -- A theory of the origin of the state / Robert L. Carneiro -- Village autonomy and articulation with the state: the case of Tokugawa Japan / Harumi Befu -- The kingdom of the Zulu of South Africa / Max Gluckman -- Character and vicissitudes of the tie of kinship / Marc Bloch -- English villagers of the thirteenth century / George C. Homans -- Types of Latin American peasantry / Eric R. Wolf -- The agricultural basis of urban civilization in Mesoamerica / Angel Palerm -- The Javanese state and Islam / Robert R. Jay -- The human results of the industrial revolution: 1750-1850 / E.J. Hobsbawm -- Husbands and wives / R. P. Dore -- Legal evolution and societal complexity / Richard D. Schwartz and James C. Miller -- The control of churches by Mills / Liston Pope -- The role of voluntary associations in West African urbanization / Kenneth Little