A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays: [1944]

by Bronislaw Malinowski

Overview

Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415488372
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/10/2008
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bronislaw Malinowski, Huntington Cairns

Table of Contents

Part 1 A Scientific Theory of Culture; Chapter I Culture as the Subject of Scientific Investigation; Chapter II A Minimum Definition of Science for the Humanist; Chapter III Concepts and Methods of Anthropology; Chapter IV What is Culture?; Chapter V Theory of Organized Behavior; Chapter VI The Concrete Isolates of Organized Behavior; Chapter VII The Functional Analysis of Culture; Chapter VIII What is Human Nature?; Chapter IX The Derivation of Cultural Needs; Chapter X Basic Needs and Cultural Responses; Chapter XI The Nature of Derived Needs; Chapter XII The Integrative Imperatives of Human Culture; Chapter XIII The Instrumentally Implemented Vital Sequence; Part 2 The Functional Theory; Chapter Ia Embryology and Obstetrics; Chapter IIa General Axioms of Functionalism; Chapter IIIa Function Defined; Chapter IVa The Rough Approach to Functionalism; Chapter Va The Legitimate Isolates of Cultural Analysis; Chapter VIa The Structure of an Institution; Chapter VIIa The Concept of Function; Chapter VIIIa The Theory of Needs; Chapter IXa Conclusions; Part 3 Sir James George Frazer: A Biographical Appreciation; Introduction; Chapter Ib The Paradox of Frazer’s Personality and Work; Chapter IIb Frazer’s Position in the Development of Ethnological Theory; Chapter IIIb Critical Analysis of Some Special Theories; Chapter IVb Whither Anthropology?;