Acknowledgment
Foreword
Contents
I. Anthropology and Its Sister Sciences
1. The Science of Human Learning, Society, Culture, and Personality
2. Sociology and Anthropology
3. British Social Anthropology
4. Anthropology and Its Contribution to Public Health
II. The Nature of Culture
5. The Science of Culture
6. Fundamental Characteristics of Culture
7. The Common Denominator of Cultures
III. Dynamics of Cultural Change
8. How Culture Changes
9. Cultural Evolution
10. Cultural Relativity
11. Changing Emphases in Social Structure
IV. Social Organization
12. Double Descent
13. Cognatic Forms of Social Organization
Table 1. Subtypes of Cognatic Social Organization
14. Social Organization of the Tenino
15. Social Organization of Truk
16. Anthropology in Micronesia
V. Religion, Ceremonial, and Recreation
17. Tenino Shamanism
18. Rank and Potlatch Among the Haida
19. Waging Baseball in Truk
VI. Cross-Cultural Comparison
20. Anthropology as a Comparative Science
21. Comparative Data on the Division of Labor by Sex
Table 2. Division of Labor by Sex
22. Family Stability in Non-European Cultures
Table 3. Reasons for Divorce
23. Cross-Language Parallels in Parental Kin Terms
Tables 4, 4a, 4b. Parental Kin Terms
24. Political Moieties
Autobiographical Sketch
Bibliography
Index