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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Science of Custom | |
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| Custom and behaviour | |
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| The child's inheritance | |
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| Our false perspective | |
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| Confusion of local custom with 'Human Nature' | |
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| Our blindness to other cultures | |
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| Race-prejudice | |
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| Man moulded by custom, not instinct | |
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| 'Racial purity' a delusion | |
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| Reason for studying primitive peoples | |
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| The Diversity of Cultures | |
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| The cup of life | |
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| The necessity for selection | |
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| Adolescence and puberty as treated in different societies | |
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| Peoples who never heard of war | |
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| Marriage customs | |
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| Interweaving of cultural traits | |
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| Guardian spirits and visions | |
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| Marriage and the Church | |
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| These associations social, not biologically inevitable | |
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| The Integration of Culture | |
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| All standards of behaviour relative | |
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| Patterning of culture | |
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| Weakness of most anthropological work | |
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| The view of the whole | |
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| Spengler's 'Decline of the West' | |
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| Faustian and Apollonian man | |
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| Western civilization too intricate for study | |
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| A detour via primitive tribes | |
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| The Pueblos of New Mexico | |
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| An unspoiled community | |
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| Zuni ceremonial | |
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| Priests and masked gods | |
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| Medicine societies | |
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| A strongly socialized culture | |
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| 'The middle road' | |
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| Carrying farther the Greek ideal | |
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| Contrasting customs of the Plains Indians | |
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| Dionysian frenzies and visions | |
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| Drugs and alcohol | |
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| The Zuni's distrust of excess | |
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| Scorn for power and violence | |
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| Marriage, death, and mourning | |
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| Fertility ceremonies | |
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| Sex symbolism | |
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| 'Man's oneness with the universe' | |
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| The typical Apollonian civilization | |
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| Dobu | |
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| Where ill-will and treachery are virtues | |
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| Traditional hostility | |
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| Trapping the bridegroom | |
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| The humiliating position of the husband | |
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| Fierce exclusiveness of ownership | |
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| Reliance on magic | |
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| Ritual of the garden | |
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| Disease-charms and sorcerers | |
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| Passion for commerce | |
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| Wabuwabu, a sharp trade practice | |
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| Death | |
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| Mutual recriminations among survivors | |
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| Laughter excluded | |
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| Prudery | |
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| A cutthroat struggle | |
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| The Northwest Coast of America | |
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| A sea-coast civilization | |
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| The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island | |
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| Typical Dionysians | |
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| Cannibal Society | |
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| At the opposite pole from the Pueblos | |
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| The economic contest | |
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| A parody on our own society | |
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| Self-glorification | |
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| Shaming one's guests | |
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| Potlatch exchanges | |
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| Heights of bravado | |
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| Investing in a bride | |
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| Prerogatives through marriage, murder, and religion | |
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| Shamanism | |
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| Fear of ridicule | |
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| Death, the paramount affront | |
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| The gamut of emotions | |
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| The Nature of Society | |
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| Integration and assimilation | |
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| Conflict of inharmonious elements | |
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| Our own complex society | |
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| The organism v. the individual | |
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| The cultural v. the biological interpretation | |
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| Applying the lesson of primitive tribes | |
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| No fixed 'types' | |
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| Significance of diffusion and cultural configuration | |
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| Social values | |
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| Need for self-appraisal | |
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| The Individual and the Pattern of Culture | |
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| Society and individual not antagonistic but interdependent | |
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| Ready adaptation to a pattern | |
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| Reactions to frustration | |
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| Striking cases of maladjustment | |
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| Acceptance of homosexuals | |
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| Trance and catalepsy as means to authority | |
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| The place of the 'misfit' in society | |
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| Possibilities of tolerance | |
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| Extreme representatives of a cultural type: Puritan divines and successful modern egoists | |
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| Social relativity a doctrine of hope, not despair | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |