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Man in Adaptation - The Institutional Framework (Hardcover)
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Man in Adaptation - The Institutional Framework (Hardcover)
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How do specific activities and institutions in which people are
involved fit into the overall adaptive strategy of their society?
What are the particular pressures leading to change in each of
these spheres when the group's strategy of adaptation changes? What
are the human demands made by a hunting-gathering strategy that
lead to the development of particular family systems, modes of
social control, religious beliefs and practices, values and
ideologies, and personality structures? What are the new human
demands that lead to the reorganization of these aspects of life as
the group moves from one level of development to another? Man in
Adaptation: The Institutional Framework introduces the
institutional, psychological, and ideological dimensions of the
strategies of adaptation that have characterized human societies
from the earliest known forms of social life to the present. Cohen
includes topics that are of principal anthropological concern
notably marriage, law and social control, religion and magic, value
systems, personality, and art. There are no studies that deal with
cultural change as such in this book. Where possible, Cohen
includes articles that deal with changes in particular spheres of
activity, such as family organization, law, religion, and value
systems. He argues that change is not a special situation. Instead,
culture is change and change is culture, and it is unrealistic to
study change outside the specific social and technological
organization of a given society. This volume unifies the subject
matter of anthropology within a single and powerful explanatory
framework and incorporates the work of the most renowned
anthropological experts on man.
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