Robert H. Lowie

Lowie, Robert Harry - or Robert Heinrich Lowielōˈē, 1883–1957, American anthropologist, b. Vienna, grad. College of the City of New York, 1901, Ph.D. Columbia, 1908. He was on the staff of the American Museum of Natural History from 1908 until 1921. From that year until his death he taught at the Univ. of California. Lowie gained international fame through his studies Read More...

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Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians
by Robert H. Lowie. 308 pgs.

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Myths And Traditions Of The Crow Indians is now reprinted with a new introduction by Peter Nabokov. These concretely detailed accounts served the crow Indians as entertainments, morals lessons, cultural records, and guides to the workings of the universe.

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Sources of American Indian Oral Literature

Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians

Introduction to the Bison Book Edition

Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Old-Man-Coyote Cycle

Hero Tales

Tales of Supernatural Patrons

Miscellaneous Tales

Historical Traditions

BIblIography

AppendIX
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Primitive Society
by Robert H. Lowie. 466 pgs.

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Preface

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Chapter I: Introduction

Chapter II: Marriage

Chapter III: Polygamy

Chapter IV: The Family

Chapter V: Kinship Usages

Chapter VI: The Sib

Chapter VII: History of the Sib

Chapter VIII: The Position of Women

Chapter IX: Property

Chapter X: Associations

Chapter XI: Theory of Associations

Chapter XII: Rank

Chapter XIII: Government

Chapter XIV Justice

Chapter XV: Conclusion

Bibliography

Index
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The Crow Indians
by Robert H. Lowie. 350 pgs.

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List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

I: Tribal Organization

II: Kinship and Affnity

III: From Cradle to Grave

IV: The Workaday World

V: Literature

VI: Selected Tales

VII: Old Woman's Grandchild

VIII: Twined-Tail

IX: Club Life

X: War

XI: Religion

XII: Rites and Festivals

XIII: The Bear Song Dance

XIV: The Sacred Pipe Dance

XV: The Tobacco Society

XVI: The Sun Dance

XVII: World-View

Appendix I: Sources

Appendix II: Clan Names

Glossary

Index
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Toward Understanding Germany
by Robert H. Lowie. 401 pgs.

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Part One: Introduction

I: Who Are the Germans?

II: Methods of Investigation

Part Two: Particularism

III: Particularism and Nationalism In the Reich

IV: Swiss and Austrian Particularism

Part Three: Stratification of Society

V: Classes and Rank

VI: The Nobility

VII: The Upper Middle Class

VIII: The Petty Bourgeois

X: The Peasant

XI: Between 1918 and 1945

XII: The Classes Since the Second World War

Part Four: The Family

XIII: The General European Background

XIV: Rural Data

XV: Urban Data

XVI: The Alemannic Control

XVII: Miscellaneous Data

XVIII: Summary

Part Five: Germans, Naziism, and Democracy

XX: The Germans and Democracy

XXI: Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Primitive Society
by Robert H. Lowie. 466 pgs.

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Contents

Chapter I: Introduction

Chapter II: Marriage

Chapter III: Polygamy

Chapter IV: The Family

Chapter V: Kinship Usages

Chapter VI: The Sib

Chapter VII: History of the Sib

Chapter VIII: The Position of Women

Chapter IX: Property

Chapter X: Associations

Chapter XI: Theory of Associations

Chapter XII: Rank

Chapter XIII: Government

Chapter XIV Justice

Chapter XV: Conclusion

Bibliography

Index
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Selected Papers from the American Anthropologist, 1888-1920 ("Family and Sib" by Robert H. Lowie begins on p. 64 and "Ceremonialism in North America" by Robert H. Lowie begins on p. 686 )
by A. Irving Hallowell, Frederica de Laguna. 930 pgs.

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The Nomenclature and Teaching of Anthropology

I: The Development of Anthropology

American Anthropologist

Frederic Ward Putnam

II: American Indian Origins

The American Anthropologist

American Anthropologist

The American Anthropologist

III: American Archeology

American Anthropologist

American Anthropologist

IV: Physical Anthropology

Aboriginal Trephining in Bolivia

Note on the Molar Teeth of the Piltdown Mandible

V: Language

The Present Condition of Our Knowledge of North American Languages

American Anthropologist

Language and Environment

The American Anthropologist

VI: Ethnography

The Chukchi of Northeastern Asia

The Technic of Aboriginal American Basketry

Coup and Scalp among the Plains Indians

Ceremonialism in North America

Book Reviews

American Anthropologist

American Anthropologist

VII: Method and Theory of Ethnology

American Anthropologist

Selected Bibliography on the History of Anthropology in America

Index of Authors and Titles
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Methods in Social Science: A Case Book (Chap. 18 "Hugo Obermaier's Reconstruction of Sequences among Prehistoric Cultures in the Old World" by Robert H. Lowie)
by Stuart A. Rice. 824 pgs.

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Foreword

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Introduction

Case Analyses

Section I: the Delimitation of Fields of Inquiry

ANALYSIS 1: THE METHOD OF AUGUSTE COMTE: SUBORDINATION OF IMAGINATION TO OBSERVATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

ANALYSIS 2: RELATION OF UTILITY THEORY TO ECONOMIC METHOD IN THE WORK OF WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS AND OTHERS

ANALYSIS 3: THE POSSIBILITY OF A SCIENCE OF POLITICS: WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO METHODS SUGGESTED BY WILLIAM B. MUNRO AND GEORGE E. G. CATLIN

ANALYSIS 4: MARY RICHMOND'S FORMULATION OF A NEW SCIENCE

ANALYSIS 5: STRUCTURAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GESTALT: THE METHODS OF E. B. TITCHENER COMPARED WITH THOSE OF K. KOFFKA, W. KýHLER AND M. WERTHEIMER

ANALYSIS 6: PROBLEMS OF METHOD IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: ALFRED VERDROSS' CONCEPT OF THE UNITY OF THE LEGAL ORDER ON THE BASIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONSTITUTION

Section II: the Definition of Objects of Investigation

ANALYSIS 7: THE SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS OF VILFREDO PARETO

ANALYSIS 8: THE SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER, AND OF WILLIAM I. THOMAS AND FLORIAN ZNANIECKI

ANALYSIS 9: TYPOLOGICAL METHOD: E. KRETSCHMER'S STUDY OF PHYSIQUE AND CHARACTER

ANALYSIS 10: WILLIAM McDOUGALL'S METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF INSTINCT

Section III: the Establishment of Units and Scales

ANALYSIS 11: METHODS INVOLVED IN THE FEDERAL CENSUS OF POPULATION

ANALYSIS 12: A DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE SIZE OF FAMILIES, INVENTED BY EDGAR SYDENSTRICKER AND W. I. KING

ANALYSIS 13: TESTING AND SCALING METHODS: E. L. THORNDIKE'S MEASUREMENTS OF HANDWRITING

Section IV: Attempts to Discover Spatial Distributions and Temporal Sequences

ANALYSIS 14: A DETAIL OF REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY: OBJECTIVES AND METHODS IN ROBERT S. PLATT'S STUDY OF THE ELLISON BAY COMMUNITY

ANALYSIS 15: THE INFLUENCE OF GEOLOGY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY UPON THE INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, AND LIFE OF A PEOPLE, AS DESCRIBED BY CARL ORTWIN SAUER AND OTHERS

ANALYSIS 16: THE CALIFORNIA RAISIN INDUSTRY: C. C. COLBY'S STUDY IN GEO. GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION

ANALYSIS 17: THE CULTURE-AREA AND AGE-AREA CONCEPTS OF CLARK WISSLER

ANALYSIS 18: HUGO OBERMAIER'S RECONSTRUCTION OF SEQUENCES AMONG PREHIS- TORIC CULTURES IN THE OLD WORLD

ANALYSIS 19: N. C. NELSON'S STRATICRAPHIC TECHNIQUE IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC SEQUENCES IN SOUTHWESTERN AMERICA

Section V: Interpretations of Change as A Developmental Stage

ANALYSIS 21: THE CONCEPT OF PHONETIC LAW AS TESTED IN PRIMITIVE LANGUAGES

ANALYSIS 22: THE PREDICTION OF CULTURAL CHANGE: A PROBLEM ILLUSTRATED IN STUDIES BY F. STUART CHAPIN AND A. L. KROEBER

Section VI: Interpretations of Temporal Sequences with Consideration of Special Types of "Causation"

ANALYSIS 23: THE SECTION AND THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY: THE METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER

ANALYSIS 24: THE WORK OF HENRI PIRENNE AND GEORG VON BELOW WITH RESPECT TO THE ORIGIN OF THE MEDIEVAL TOWN

ANALYSIS 25: HISTORY AND NATIONALISM AS PORTRAYED BY SIDNEY B. FAY

ANALYSIS 26: THE HISTORICAL METHOD OF JULES MICHELET

ANALYSIS 27: THE HISTORICAL METHOD OF ERNEST RENAN

ANALYSIS 28: SPIRITUAL VALUES IN THE WORK OF ERNST TROELTSCH

ANALYSIS 29: VOLTAIRE, HISTORIAN OF CIVILIZATION AND EXPONENT OF RATIONALISM

ANALYSIS 30: WHAT ARE HISTORIANS TRYING TO DO

Section VII: Interpretations of Relationship Among Unmeasured Factors

ANALYSIS 31: HISTORICAL INTERRELATION OF CULTURE TRAITS: FRANZ BOAS' STUDY OF TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY

ANALYSIS 32: THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL ATTITUDES: A SEMI-INTUITIVE INQUIRY BY JAMES MICKEL WILLIAMS

ANALYSIS 33: THE COMPARATIVE METHOD OF JAMES BRYCE

ANALYSIS 34: A HYPOTHESIS ROOTED IN THE PRECONCEPTIONS OF A SINGLE CIVILIZATION TESTED BY BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI

ANALYSIS 35: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH IN ECONOMICS, REPRESENTED IN THE WORK OF J. A. HOBSON

ANALYSIS 36: SOCIAL FORCES IN PERSONAL-BEHAVIOR SEQUENCES STUDIED BY THE JUDGE BAKER FOUNDATION

ANALYSIS 37: FREDERIC M. THRASHER'S STUDY OF GANGS

ANALYSIS 38: THE MISSOURI CRIME SURVEY

Section VIII: Attempts to Determine Relations Among Measured but Experimentally Uncontrolled Factors

ANALYSIS 39: INTERRELATIONS OF STATISTICAL AND CASE METHODS: STUDIES OF YOUNG DELINQUENTS BY JOHN SLAWSON AND CYRIL BURT

ANALYSIS 40: HYPOTHESES AND VERIFICATIONS IN CLIFFORD R. SHAW'S STUDIES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

ANALYSIS 41: MATHEMATICAL TREATMENT BY DOROTHY SWAINE THOMAS OF SOCIAL DATA ARRANGED IN TIME SERIES

ANALYSIS 42: THE CONCEPT OF RACE IN THE LIGHT OF FRANZ BOAS' STUDIES OF HEAD-FORMS AMONG IMMIGRANTS

ANALYSIS 43: BEHAVIOR ALTERNATIVES AS STATISTICAL DATA IN STUDIES BY WILLIAM F. OGBURN AND ERNEST W. BURGESS

ANALYSIS 44: THE INDUCTIVE TESTING OF AN ECONOMIC DEDUCTON: A METHOD ILLUSTRATED BY ANALYSES OF MARGINAL PRODUCERS AND REPRESENTATIVE FIRMS, BY ALFRED MARSHALL, HORACE SECRIST, AND KEMPER SIMPSON

ANALYSIS 45: STATISTICAL MEASUREMENTS OF THE OPERATION OF THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS BY MORDECAI EZEKIEL AND OTHERS

ANALYSIS 46: HENRY L. MOORE'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE STATISTICAL LAW OF DEMAND

ANALYSIS 47: WESLEY C. MITCHELL'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF BUSINESS CYCLES

Section IX: Attempts to Determine Quantitative Relations Among Measured and Experimentally Controlled Factors

ANALYSIS 48: EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATIONS BY S. WYATT AND J. A. FRASER OF THE EFFECTS OF REST PAUSES UPON REPETITIVE WORK

ANALYSIS 49: EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION BY FLOYD H. ALLPORT OF GROUP INFLUENCES UPON MENTAL ACTIVITY

ANALYSIS 50: HAROLD F. GOSNELL'S EXPERIMENTS IN THE STIMULATION OF VOTING

ANALYSIS 51: THE QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF HIGHER MENTAL PROCESSES IN THE PIONEER STUDIES OF H. EBBINGHAUS

ANALYSIS 52: THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ATTITUDE, MEANING, AND THE PROCESSES ANTECEDENT TO ACTION BY N. ACH AND OTHERS IN THE WýRZBURG LABORATORY

Appendixes

Indexes
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Culture & Ethnology
by Robert H. Lowie. 192 pgs.

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I. Culture and Psychology

Iii. Culture and Environment

Iv. the Determinants of Culture

V. Terms of Relationship

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