A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays

[1944]
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-48837-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malinowski

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 A Scientific Theory of Culture; Chapter I Culture as the Subject of Scientific Investigation; Chapter II A Minimum Definition of Science for the Humanist; Chapter III Concepts and Methods of Anthropology; Chapter IV What is Culture?; Chapter V Theory of Organized Behavior; Chapter VI The Concrete Isolates of Organized Behavior; Chapter VII The Functional Analysis of Culture; Chapter VIII What is Human Nature?; Chapter IX The Derivation of Cultural Needs; Chapter X Basic Needs and Cultural Responses; Chapter XI The Nature of Derived Needs; Chapter XII The Integrative Imperatives of Human Culture; Chapter XIII The Instrumentally Implemented Vital Sequence; Part 2 The Functional Theory; Chapter Ia Embryology and Obstetrics; Chapter IIa General Axioms of Functionalism; Chapter IIIa Function Defined; Chapter IVa The Rough Approach to Functionalism; Chapter Va The Legitimate Isolates of Cultural Analysis; Chapter VIa The Structure of an Institution; Chapter VIIa The Concept of Function; Chapter VIIIa The Theory of Needs; Chapter IXa Conclusions; Part 3 Sir James George Frazer: A Biographical Appreciation; Introduction; Chapter Ib The Paradox of Frazer’s Personality and Work; Chapter IIb Frazer’s Position in the Development of Ethnological Theory; Chapter IIIb Critical Analysis of Some Special Theories; Chapter IVb Whither Anthropology?;

Über Autor(innen)

Bronislaw Malinowski, Huntington Cairns