Social Anthropology - Robert Redfield

Informationen zum Autor Clifford Wilcox Klappentext Robert Redfield is remembered primarily as an anthropologist. This volume aims to bring together Redfield's important contributions to social anthropology. It traces Redfield's seminal contributions to the early development of modernization theory and the interdisciplinary fields of peasant and comparative civilizations studies. Zusammenfassung Robert Redfield is remembered today primarily as an anthropologist, but during his lifetime Redfield's cross-disciplinary activity reflected a strong interest in infusing anthropological practice with sociological theory Inhaltsverzeichnis I: Modernization; 1: Anthropology, A Natural Science?; 2: Among the Middle Americans; 3: A Note on Method; 4: The Mexican Folk; 5: Sociological Investigation in Yucatan; 6: Robert E. Park to Robert Redfield, 23 January 1932; 7: Culture Changes in Yucatan; 8: The Folk Culture and Civilization; 9: The Folk Society and Culture; 10: The Folk Society; II: Peasant; 11: The Intermediate Community; 12: Introduction to St. Denis: A French Canadian Parish; 13: Later Histories of the Folk Society; 14: Peasantry: Part Societies; III: Comparative Study of Civilizations; 15: The Villager's View of Life; 16: The Primitive World View; 17: The Social Organization of Tradition; 18: The Cultural Role of Cities; 19: Civilizations as Cultural Structures?

Product details

• Authors: Robert Redfield, Kevin Jack Riley, Riley Kevin Jack, Clifford Wilcox, Clifford (EDT)/ Wilcox Wilcox
• Assisted by: Clifford Wilcox (Editor), Clifford M. Wilcox (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2008
• EAN: 9781412806947
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-0694-7
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology