AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY A NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION
BY ROBERT H. LOWIE, PH. D. PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA RINEHART COMPANY, INC. PUBLISHERS NEW YORK First
Printing April, 1940 Second Printing February, 19 1 Third Printing
Junc, 19J, f Fourth Printing March, 19 6 Fifth Printing October, 19
t 6 Sixth Printing June, 1947 COPYRIGHT, 1934, 1940, BY BOBERT H.
LOWIB PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY J. J. LITTLE AND
IVE8 COMPANY, NEW YORK ALL BIGHTS RESERVED TO MY WIFE PREFACE TO
THE SECOND EDITION The original purpose of this book was to provide
a topical survey of culture, with the emphasis on elemen tary
facts. For lack of such preparatory orientation, I believed and I
continue to believe, advanced students of the social sciences,
including anthropology, and even young scholars launched on a
professional career, remain pitiably at sea. They are sometimes
found working with the subtlest problems when they have not the
faintest idea how these fit into the general framework of civil
ization. Apparently the book has fulfilled its humble mission in
the English-speaking world and the French translation, Maniiel
danthropologie culturelle Paris Payot, 1936, is said to have proved
useful in France and in South America. However, teachers of
anthropology in this country have urged amplification, requesting
chapters on Lan guage and Theory, as well as descriptions of
typical cul tures in their totality. The present edition is meant
to satisfy these demands without undue enlargement. The tribal
sketches, which occupy a large portion of the supplementary space,
have received . special care. First, I have tried to demonstrate
the range of culturalpossibilities by bringing out qualitative
differences as well as varying degrees of complexity. Hence,
chapters on Albania and Western civilization no less than on Fuegia
and Australia on incipient and on intensive farmers on cultivators
of rice and of maize on hunters and on herders. But pedagogically
little is gained by a multiplicity of names for that reason the
number of these sketches is limited and, so far as possible, tribes
already rather fully considered in the topical survey are viii
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION reintroduced in Part II so that
cross-referencing may economize space. Second, even at best
descriptive completeness is not possible and should not be aimed at
even in outline. Indeed, the effort to treat all peoples according
to one scheme distorts the pictures. The proper procedure is to
view any one group according to its distinctive empha ses
government cannot be ignored in the merest sketch of the Shilluk,
but requires no explicit discussion in a chapter on Fuegians. On
the other hand, cultural indi viduality is best depicted by
contrast, and accordingly comparisons have been freely used.
Finally, the peoples dealt with are not merely so many specimens of
social patterns, but also exemplify broad principles of cultural
process. Accordingly, these have been stressed at the close of the
several chapters. Careful perusal of what is now Part I did not
suggest the need for radical revision, but some supplementary
information is offered under the head of Addenda. In compliance
with special requests I have also added an Annotated Reading List
over and above the Bibli ographical Notes. To the several firms and
institutions that authorized reproduction of
copyrightedillustrations I once more express my obligation above
all to The American Mu seum of Natural History, which provided the
half-tones for the chapter on Art to Field Museum Chicago the
Baessler-Archiv Berlin Anthropos formerly St. Gabriel-Modling bei
Wien, now in Fribourg, Switzer land Institut dEthnologie Paris F.
A. Brockhaus Leipzig Albert Bonnier Stockholm and the Uni versity
of Minnesota Minneapolis. ROBERT H...
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