Book Reviews - Methods and Principles

Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. Le système totémique en Australie. Emile Durkheim. Felix Alcan, Paris, 1912. 647 pp. and tribal map of Australia. A contribution by Emile Durkheim always commands attention. His Les règles de la méthode sociologique, De la division du travail social, and Le Suicide have exercised an appreciable influence on sociological theory and are still remembered and read. As editor of L’Année sociologique, Durkheim deserves credit for a methodical and extens..

Responses to "The Superorganic:" Texts by Alexander Goldenweiser and Edward Sapir, Edited and with an introduction by Alex Golub

Alfred Kroeber’s “The Superorganic” is a classic of anthropological theory. Originally published in 1917 in American Anthropologist, the article drew important responses from Edward Sapir and Alexander Goldenweiser. SMOP #1 includes Kroeber’s article. This occasional paper includes Sapir and Goldenweiser’s responses. The responses have been edited for brevity, concision, and clarity. In a few cases I have altered verbs and nouns for agreement when editing the text caused them to disagree. These are indicated with brackets. The goal has been to respect the author’s stylistic choices while presenting a slimmed-down version which can be taught in a single session in an undergraduate or graduate theory course

Early Civilization: An Introduction to Anthropology

Non-referee

Primitive Paternity, the Myth of Supernatural Birth in relation to the History of the Family . B y edwin S idney H artland

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History, psychology, and culture

xi, 475 p.; 23 cm