Kroeber, A. L (Alfred Louis) 1876-1960 Search this
Physical description:
xxiii, 433 p. front. (port.) illus., 4 pl. on 2 l. 27 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1936
Notes:
Preface signed: Robert H. Lowie, editor.
--A preliminary report on the zöological knowledge of the Makah, by Erna Gunther.--Dreaming in relation to spirit kindred and sickness in Hawaii, by E.S.C. Handy.--Chemehuevi shamanism, by Isabel T. Kelly.--Speculations on new world prehistory, by A.V. Kidder.--The distribution and function of money in early societies, by E.M. Loeb.--Lewis H. Morgan in historical perspective, by R.H. Lowie.--The classification of the Sonoran languages (with an appendix by B.L. Whorf) by J.A. Mason.--Notes on the Santa Barbara culture, by N.C. Nelson.--Some trading customs of the Chilkat Tlingit, by R.L. Olson.--Wide-loom fabrics of the early Nazca period, by Lila M. O'Neale.--The house-clan complex of thePueblos, by Elsie Clews Parsons.--Ojibwa and Ottawa puberty dreams, by Paul Radin.--Attitudes towar d avoidance: a suggestion, by Gladys A. Reichard.--Hupa tattooing, by Edward Sapir.--American agricultural origins: a consideration of nature and culture, by Carl Sauer.
--Donner und regenbogen beim höchsten wesen Yuki, by W. Schmidt.--The man petroglyph near Prince Rupert; or, The man who fell from heaven, by H.I. Smith.--Inland Eskimo bands of Labrador, by F.G. Speck.--The economic and social basis of primitive bands, by J.H. Steward.--Florida cultural affiliations in relation to adjacent areas, by M.W. Stirling.--Anthropological theory and archaeological fact, by W.D. Strong.--Early history of the eastern Siouan tribes, by J.R. Swanton.--Sozialpsychische abläufe im völkerleben, by R.C. Thurnwald.--Productive paradigms in Shawnee, by C.F. Voegelin.--Thesocial configuration of magician behavior: a study of the nature of magic, by W.L. Warner.--The gre at world theater, by T.T. Waterman.--Bibliography of Albert L. Kroeber (p. 423-432)
Contents:
Alfred L. Kroeber: personal reminiscences and professional appreciation, by C.L. Alsberg and R.H. Lowie.--The army worm: a food of the Pomo Indians, by S.A. Barrett.--Problems in the study of Mixe marriage customs, by Ralph Beals.--The relations between physical and social anthropology, by Franz Boas.--Family, clan and phratry in central Sumatra, by F.C. Cole.--Scapulimancy, by J.M. Cooper.--Papago nicknames, by Juan Dolores.--The wealth concerpt as an integrative factor in Tolowa-Tututni culture, by Carol Du Bois.--Estudillo among the Yokuts: 1819, by A.H. Gayton.--Californian balanophagy, by E.W. Gifford.--Loose ends of theory on the individual, pattern, and involution in primitive society, by A.A. Goldenweiser
