American Anthropology, 1921-1945: Papers from the American Anthropologist

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• American Anthropology, 1921–1945 *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Introduction - Thoughts Toward a History of the Interwar Years 1
• I - The Twenties 75
• American Culture and the Northwest Coast 77
• Notes 93
• Review of A. R. Brown, the Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology (Cambridge 94
• Diffusion as a Criterion of Age 98
• Miwok Lineages and the Political Unit in Aboriginal California 107
• The Origin of the Skidi Pawnee Sacrifice to the Morning Star 118
• Review of Franz Boas, Primitive Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927) 127
• Review of Roland B. Dixon, the Building of Cultures (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928) 130
• Problems Arising from the Cultural Position of the Havasupai 135
• II - Innovations 147

• American Anthropology, 1921–1945 *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Introduction - Thoughts Toward a History of the Interwar Years 1
• I - The Twenties 75
• American Culture and the Northwest Coast 77
• Notes 93
• Review of A. R. Brown, the Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology (Cambridge 94
• Diffusion as a Criterion of Age 98
• Miwok Lineages and the Political Unit in Aboriginal California 107
• The Origin of the Skidi Pawnee Sacrifice to the Morning Star 118
• Review of Franz Boas, Primitive Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927) 127
• Review of Roland B. Dixon, the Building of Cultures (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928) 130
• Problems Arising from the Cultural Position of the Havasupai 135
• II - Innovations 147
• Review of Robert Redfield, Tepoztlan: A Mexican Village (Chicago 149
• Configurations of Culture in North America 151
• Notes 177
• The Science of Culture 180
• Notes 195
• Bibliography 196
• More Comprehensive Field Methods 198
• Notes 213
• Culture Changes in Yucatan 214
• Some Empirical Aspects of Northern Saulteaux Religion 228
• Notes 244
• Kinship Terminologies in California 245
• Notes 250
• Kinship and History 252
• Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation 257
• Historical Changes in the Choctaw Kinship System 263
• Notes 279
• Review of Fred Eggan, Ed., Social Organization of North American Tribes: Essays in Social Organization, Law, and Religion (Chicago 284
• III - Sub-Disciplines 289
• The Plains Culture Area in the Light of Archaeology 291
• Notes 306
• References Cited 307
• An Outline of the Problem of Man's Antiquity in North America 309
• Notes 325
• The Comparative Linguistics of Uto-Aztecan 331
• Internal Linguistic Evidence Suggestive of the Northern Origin of the Navaho 341
• Notes 352
• On Being Unhistorical 354
• Notes 361
• A Method for Phonetic Accuracy and Speed 363
• Blood Group Determinations of Prehistoric American Indians 370
• Notes 379
• Fossil Man and the Origin of Races 381
• Notes 392
• IV - Reconsiderations 395
• Review of Robert H. Lowie, the Crow Indians (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935) 397
• The Dual Organizations of the Ramko' Kamekra (Canella) of Northern Brazil 401
• Notes 418
• Linguistic Distributions and Political Groups of the Great Basin Shoshoneans 421
• Notes 431
• A Problem in Kinship Terminology 433
• Notes 438
• Review of Abram Kardiner, the Individual and His Society; the Psychodynamics of Primitive Social Organization (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939) 442
• Some Comments on the Study of Cultural Contact 448
• Acquired Drives in Culture Contact 459
• Covert Culture and Administrative Problems 470
• Notes 486
• On the Concept of Culture and Some Cultural Fallacies 488
• Notes 500
• Socialization, Personality, and the Structure of Pueblo Society (With Particular Reference to Hopi and Zuni) 505
• Notes 526
• Bibliography 532
• V - Applications 537
• American Anthropological Association Resolution on Racial Theories 539
• Applied Anthropology and Its Relationship to Anthropology 540
• Notes 542