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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!