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Grinstein 19702.
Documents the importance in modern urban settings of extended family kinship networks.
One of two Festschriften for Willey issued simultaneously, collecting papers given at a 1980 Symposium. 11 papers, mostly dealing with pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, especially the Maya, + a complete bibliography of Willey's publications.
First complete translation into English, with minor changes to this version of the text by Lévi-Strauss.
The successor to his classic Structural Anthropology.
Trained in philosophy, Lévy-Bruhl was in 1896 appointed professor of the history of modern philosophy at the Sorbonne, just when his interests turned to anthropology. An armchair anthropologist like Frazer, Lévy-Bruhl published between 1910 and 1938 six books on the primitive mind, of which this is a translation of the third. He held that the thinking of "primitive" peoples is both prelogical and mystical. By "mystical" he meant that primitive peoples experience the world as identical with themselves; by "prelogical" he meant that, indifferent to contradictions, they deem all things identical with one another yet somehow still distinct. Jung relied on Lévy-Bruhl for his knowledge of "primitive" peoples but explained primitive mentality psychologically rather than sociologically. Whereas for Lévy-Bruhl "primitive" thinking evolutionarily preceded the "modern" logical type of thinking of civilized peoples, for Jung it was a universal characteristic of all humans.
Trained in philosophy, Lévy-Bruhl was in 1896 appointed professor of the history of modern philosophy at the Sorbonne, just when his interests turned to anthropology. An armchair anthropologist like Frazer, Lévy-Bruhl published between 1910 and 1938 six books on the primitive mind, of which this is the second, preceded by his 1910 Les fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures. He held that the thinking of "primitive" peoples is both prelogical and mystical. By "mystical" he meant that primitive peoples experience the world as identical with themselves; by "prelogical" he meant that, indifferent to contradictions, they deem all things identical with one another yet somehow still distinct. Jung relied on Lévy-Bruhl for his knowledge of "primitive" peoples but explained primitive mentality psychologically rather than sociologically. Whereas for Lévy-Bruhl "primitive" thinking evolutionarily preceded the "modern" logical type of thinking of civilized peoples, for Jung it was a universal characteristic of all humans.
The product of an interdisciplinary seminar arranged to encourage cross-fertilization between social anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts. 13 papers: Lewis' introduction; Alfred Gell's "Magic, Perfume, Dream"; Gilbert Lewis' "A Mother's Brother to a Sister's Son"; Pamela Constantinides' "Ill at Ease and Sick at Heart: Symbolic Behaviour in a Sudanese Healing Cult"; Serge Larose's "The Meaning of Africa in Haitian Vodu"; Abner Cohen's "Symbolic Action and the Structure of the Self"; Charles Rycroft's "Is Freudian Symbolism a Myth?"; Stansislav Grof's "The Implications of Psychedelic Research for Anthropology: Observations from LSD Psychotherapy:" John Payne's "The Roots of Violence and Symbolism inChildhood and Adolescence"; David Starkey's "Representation through Intimacy"; Vieda Skultans' "Moral Order and Mental Derangement"; Audrey Cantlie's "Aspects of Hindu Asceticism"; Paul Hershman's "Virgin and Mother."
Nemec 447; GM #174 & 4939; Norman Catalog 1384; PMM 364—all the 1st edition. An enormously influential Italian psychiatrist and criminologist, Lombroso melded together Social Darwinism, Morel's degeneration theory, and French positivsm to explain criminal behavior. Though over the years he refined his theory to take account of various criticisms, he basically held 1) that criminals were a degenerate reversion to an earlier, and more brutal type; 2) that the criminal type could be recognized from specific physical stigmata, among which were facial assymetry, deviation in head size, eye defects, ears of unusual size, fleshy or swollen lips, etc. Lombroso's degeneration theory remained the paradigm in criminology into the 20th century."Lombroso was a leader in the Italian school of criminal anthropology, which enjoyed an international reputation and influence in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Lombroso's criminology, which . . . held that criminals exhibited more atavistic or 'throwback' characteristics than non-criminals, and that these atavisms, whether physical or mental, were either inherited or the result of physical degeneration. These theories, published in L'uomo delinquente and several other works, caused a good deal of controversy, but also exerted a powerful influence that still persists, even though we no longer accept Lombroso's concept of the connection between atavism and criminality. Lombroso and his followers emphasized the study of the individual delinquent personality, focusing on prevention, education and rehabilitation, 'thus anticipating the study of the individual personality undertaken later by the psychodynamic schools' (Howells, p. 72). Also, by linking criminality with mental disturbances, 'Lombroso initiated a branch of psychiatric research which has cast new light on problems, such as criminal responsibility, which lie at the root of human society'" [Norman 1384].
Malinowski's anthropological observations paved the way for cross-cultural and eventually experimental testing of the tenets of psychoanalytic theory.
Grinstein 21616.
Grinstein 21622. 1st edition 1929; 3rd edition (with a new 26 page foreword) first published 1932.
An influential contribution to psychoanalytic anthropology.
Ehrenfreund 1926 # 7. NUC records no copy earlier than 1879. Mantegazza's first book, his Physiology of Pleasure, originally published in an edition of 750 copies, was, beginning in the 1880s, translated into Spanish, German, French, Italian, and English. Along with his sexological trilogy it was his most widely read and influential work. Mantegazza went on to found Italy's first laboratory in experimental pathology at the University of Pavia (1860) and became around 1870 professor of anthropology in Florence.
Ehrenfreund 1926 #841.
Examines the rhetoric of therapeutic discourse, emphasizing psychoanalysis and family therapy.
The second edition adds a 12 page introduction and three new essays: "Savage Supreme Beings and the Bull-Roarer"; "The Birth of Humility"; and "In a Prehistoric Sanctuary." The first and last of these first appeared in The Hibbert Journal, while the second (a lecture read at Oxford 27th October 1910) first appeared as a pamphlet. The five papers from the first edition are essentially unchanged. These are: "Pre-animistic Religion"; "From Spell to Prayer"; "Is Taboo a Negative Magic"; "The Conception of Mana"; and "A Sociological viewof Comparative Religion."
Extracted from the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1899.
Contains David McK. Rioch's "The Biological Roots of Psychoanalysis"; Walther Riese's "The Pre-Freudian Origins of Psychoanalysis"; Devereux's "The Anthropological Roots of Psychoanalysis"; Jurgen Ruesch's "Communication Difficulties among Psychiatrists"; Edith Weigert's "Problems of Communication in Psychotherapy"; James G. Miller's "Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory"; Kardiner's "Psychoanalysis and Anthropology"; and several other papers.
Contains LaBarre's "Psychoanalysis in Anthropology"; Kardiner's "Psychoanalysis and Anthropology"; Talcottv Parsoson's "The Contributions of Psychoanalysis to Social Science"; John P. Spiegel's "Applications of Psychoanalysis in Sociology"; Harold Lasswell's "Psychoanalytic Conceptions in Political Science"; Parres & Ramirez's "Social Tensions in the Relationship of Mexicans and North Americans"; 3 papers on analysis and transactional dynamics (including Jerome Franks's "Relief of Distress and Attitudinal Change"; 3 papers on communication and therapy; and C. Knight Aldrich's "What Price Autonomy?"
22 papers including Charles C. Dahlberg's "LSD as an Aid to Psychoanalytic Treatment"; Paul Hoch's "The Combination of Psychotherapy with Drug Therapy"; Joseph Jaffe's "Electronic Computers in Psychoanalytic Research"; Herbert Spiegel's "The Dissociation-Association Continuum"; I. Markowitz et al.'s "An Investigation of Parental Recognition of Children's Dreams: A Preliminary Report"; 10 papers on violence and warfare including Eibl-Eibesfeldt's "Aggressive Behavior and Ritualized Fighting in Animals," Leonard Berkowitz's "Aggressive Stimuli, Aggressive Responses and Hostility Catharsis," Lewis Coser's "Violence and the Social Structure," Margaret Mead's "Violence in the Perspective of Culture History."
Howes M79: "the best edition." A study of North and South American Indian society, mores, language, etc. Contains appendices on the mounds of North America and De Soto's expedition to Florida.
The author's 1971 doctoral thesis in anthropology at the Catholic University of America. Not published in English.
With five new and four revised chapters plus a new six-page preface.
Profusely illustrated with photographs.
Contains Mead's "Growing Up in Different Cultures"; Strömgren's "Genetics and Mental Health"; Klineberg's "Growing Up for Co-operation or Conflict"; Manuel Lopez-Rey's "Mental Health and the Work of the United Nations in the Field of the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders"; Anne Audéoud-Naville's "Pubrty and Sexual Morality"; Tsung-yi Lin's "Tai-pau and Liu-Mang: Two Types of Delinquent Youth in Chinese Society"; A. Poslavsky's "The Refugee in His New Country"; and several other papers.
Her vastly influential study of child and adolescent development among the Manus in the Admiralty islands. In part two Mead applies what she has learned about and from the Manus to American culture.
An important book in the history of women's liberation. Mead forcefully argued that behavioral differences between the sexes arose from cultural rather than inherited factors.
Two desirable early Mead titles housed together in a custom-made drop-box with paper spine label. The Maoris and Their Arts is Guide Leaflet No. 71 published by The American Musuem of Natural History in 1928.
Woolmer #229. Grinstein 23455. Vande Kemp 960: "analyzes religious sacrifice according to Freudian theory, with a special emphasis on the Oedipus Complex."
Howes M-802.
Probably the first study of the behavior of a single animal in the modern sense and certainly the first American work on comparative psychology. Contains a chapter on animal psychology.
Howes M-802.
Mucke was Professor ordinarius of statistics at Jurjew University, Dorpat.
Includes Muensterberger's "On the Cultural Determinants of Individual Development", "On the Biopsychological Determinants of Social Life" and and "Orality and Dependence: Characteristics of Southern Chinese"; Róheim's "The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Culture", "Dream Analysis and Field Work in Anthropology", and "Play Analysis with Normanby Island Children"; Derek Freeman's "Totem and Taboo: a Reappraisal"; Alan W. Fraser's "Concepts of Normal Behaviour in the Light of Psychoanalysis"; George Devereux's "Normal and Abnormal: the Key Concepts of Ethnopsychiatry" and "Mohave Orality: an Analysis of Nursing and Weaning Customs"; Paul Parin & Fritz Morgenthaler's "Character Analysis Based on the Behaviour Patterns of 'Primitive' Africans"; Hartmann, Kris & Loewenstein's "Some Psychoanalytic Comments on 'Culture and Personality'"; Sidney Axelrad's "Comments on Anthropology and the Study of Complex Cultures"; and Anne Parsons' "Is the Oedipus Complex Universal? the Jones-Malinowski Debate Revisited and a South Italian 'Nuclear Complex."
Contains Arthur H. Schmale, Jr.'s "Needs, Gratification, and the Vicissitudes of the Self-Representation: A Developmental Concept of Psychic Object Relationships"; George R.Krupp's "The Bereavement Reaction: A Special Case of Separation Anxiety. Sociocultural Considerations"; Axelrad's "Infant Care and Personality Reconsidered: A Rejoinder to Orlansky"; Robert Seidenberg & Evangelos Papathomopoulos' "Daughters Who Tend Their Fathers: A Literay Survey"; Muensterberger's "The Creative Process: Its Relation to Object Loss and Fetishism"; Philip Weissman's "Psychoanalytic Comments on Modern Theater"; Róheim's "The Western Tribes of Central Australia: Childhood"; L. Bryce Boyer's "Remarks on the Personality of Shamans: With Special Reference to the Apache of the Mescalero Indian Reserveation"; Bert Kaplan's "Psychological Themes in Zuni Mythology and Zuni TAT's"; Eugene L. Gaier & Mary Jeffery Collier's "Adult Reactions to Preferred Childhood Stories: A Finnish-American Comparison"; Theodora M. Abel's "The Dreams of a Chines Patient."
Contains Derek Freeman's "Totem and Taboo: A Reappraisal" and "Shaman and Incubus"; Noel Bradley's "Primal Scene Experience in Human Evolution and Its Phantasy Derivatives in Art, Proto-Science and Philosophy"; Charles Savage & Raymond Prince's "Depression among the Yoruba"; Muensterberger & Ira A. Kishner's "Hazards of Culture Clash: A Report on the History and Dynamics of a Psychotic Episode in a West African Exchange Student"; Doris M. Hunter & Charlotte G. Babcock's "Some Aspects of the Intrapsychic Structure of Certain American Negroes as Viewed in the Intercultural Dynamic"; L. Bryce Boyer & Ruth M. Boyer's "Some Influences of Acculturation on the Personality Traits of the Old People of the Mescalero and Chiricahua Apaches"; John S. White's "Psyche and Tuberculosis: The Libido Organization of Franz Kafka"; Ernst Lewy's "The Transformation of Frederick the Great: A Psychoanalytic Study."
Contains André Green's "Idealization and Catharsis"; Frederick Baekeland's "Two Kinds of Symbolism in a Gothic Ivory Casket"; James Hamilton's "Transitional Fantasies and the Creative Process"; Hans Müller-Braunschweig's "Psychopathology and Creativity"; L. Bryce Boyer's "The Man Who Turned into a Water Moster: A Psychoanaltyic Contribution to Folklore"; Jean L. Briggs' "The Origins of Nonviolence: Aggression in Two Canadian Eskimo Groups"; Arthur E. Hippler et al.'s "The Psychocultural Significance of the Alaska Athabascan Potlach Ceremony"; Gérard Mendel's "The Theory of the Plus-Value of Power and the Method of Its Demystification."
Studies of urbanization in the Mexican cities Coatzacoalcos, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Ixtapalapa.
The first extensive study of open marriage, undertaken by a husband-wife anthropology team in 1967. The O'Neills coined the term "open marriage" in their 1968 first draft of the book.
Argues that the Hawaians did not construe Cook as a god but rather as a chief on a par with their own, challenging Eurocentric views of non-Western cultures.
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