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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 | |