| Description |
xii, 379 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword : On "culture shock" -- The human animal in biological perspective / Weston LaBarre -- Man without culture / Craig MacAndrew and Robert Edgerton -- The language of the Navaho Indians / Clyde Kluckhohn and Dorothea Leighton -- Childhood in Samoa / Margaret Mead -- The trials of a young widow (the book of Ruth) -- The viking temper (Njal's Saga) -- English peasants of the fourteenth century / H.S. Bennett -- At the Japanese inn / Oliver Statler -- A day in the life / Oscar Lewis -- A Yurok success story / Theodora Kroeber -- The hungry summer / John M. Campbell -- Food quest of the African Bushman / Elizabeth M. Thomas -- Techniques of pottery manufacture of the Papago Indians / B.L. Fontana, W.J. Robinson, C.W. Cormack, and E.E. Leavitt, Jr. -- How to build a canoe / Fang-Kuei Li -- Life on an American whaler / Herman Melville -- Curers and curing in southern Mexico / Duane Metzger and Gerald Williams -- Getting to know a Hanunóo girl / Harold C. Conklin -- Problems of a Pueblo ex-G.I. / John Adair -- The life and work of Alfred L. Kroeber / Julian H. Steward -- Prince Hamlet in Africa / Laura Bohannan -- Leadership in a Bushman band / Elizabeth M. Thomas -- An Indian Skeptic takes peyote / Paul Radin -- The world view of the Yucatecan Maya / Robert Redfield -- An African world view / Jacques Maquet -- Greetings to the Ghom / Layeh A. Bock -- Black man in the Alps / James Baldwin |
| Analysis |
Ethnology |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Anthropology.
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Culture shock.
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Ethnology.
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| Author |
Bock, Phillip K
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| LC no. |
76082519 |
| ISBN |
0394300882 |
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