Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: NONTELEOLOGICAL FUNCTIONALISM
1. Melford Spiro and the Scientific Study of Culture / Kevin Avruch
2. Natural Objects and Substitutive Acts: The Symbolic Process in the Anthropologies of Durkheim and Freud / Michael E. Meeker
3. Culturally Constituted Defenses and the Theory of Collective Motivation / Cananath Obeyesekere
4. Eufunctions, Dysfunctions, and Oracles: Literary Miracle Making in Taiwan / David K. Jordan
5. Aggressive Speech, Status, and Cultural Distribution among the Swahili of Mombasa / Marc J. Swartz
PART II: CULTURE AND PERSONALITY, GENDER ROLES, THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX, AND DREAMS
6. Culture and Personality: A False Dichotomy / Roy G. D'Andrade
7. On the "Petticoat Government" of the Eighteenth-Century Cherokee / Raymond D. Fogelson
8. Male and Female in Four Changing Cultures / George and Louise Spindler
9. Cloths of Heaven: Freud, Language, and the Negation in Pitjantjatjara Dreams / Aram Yengoyan
10. From Empathy to Alienation: Problems in Human Belonging / George De Vos
PART III: RELIGION AND PERSONALITY
11. Religion beyond the Functionalist Frontier / Manning Nash
12. Recruitment to Monasticism among the Sherpas / Robert A. Paul
13. Ritual Trance and Catharsis: A Psychobiological and Evolutionary Perspective / William Wedenoja
14. Human Nature as "Deep Structure": Implications for Comparative Study / Erika Bourguignon
PART IV: AGGRESSION, DEPENDENCY, AND THE SKILLS OF SOCIAL MANIPULATION
15. Aggression, Social Skill, and Strategy in Daily Life: A Baboon Case History / Shirley C. Strum
16. Whatever Happened to the Other Eye? / F. G. Bailey
Works Cited
Contributors
Index