Anthropology: Culture Patterns and Processes

by Alfred Louis Kroeber

Kroeber, A.L. Culture Patterns and Processes. New York, Burlingame, Harbinger Books, 1963. 20.3cm x 13.5cm. 252, XX pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some darkening to the covers. A selection of those chapters of Kroeber's classic work Anthropology that deal specifically with matters of Culture Patterns and Processes/ What Anthropology is About/ Language/ The Nature of Culture/ Patterns/ Culture Processes/ Culture Change/ Kroeber (1876-1960), long recognized as the dean of American anthropology/ History of Anthropology/ Organic and Sociocultural Elements/ Physical Anthropology/ Evolutionary Processes/ Society and Culture/ Social Science/ Linguistic the Speech Family/ Sound Equivvalences and Phonetic Law/ Permanence of Language and Race/ Rapidity of Linguistic Change/ Parallelism in language and culture/ What culture is/ Organic diversity, cultural hybridity/ folkways and the relativity of morals/ subcultures and part-cultures/ Nomadic, Caste, and Parasitic cultures/ Rural and Urban/ Material and non-material culture/ The idea of progress/ Purpose and need/ The Universal Pattern/ Systematic patterns/ Total-culture patterns/ Exemplifications in language/ Psychological Aspects/ The Clustering and Nature of genius/ The Meaning of Simultaneous Inventions/ Culture Processes/ Persistence/ Motor Habits/ Other Habit Chanelings/ Invention and Play/ Antecedents/ Cumulative and Complex Inventions/ Social Acceptance/ Simultaneous Inventions Again/ Cultural Los/ Disappearance of Useful Arts/ Effects of Southampton and Easter Islands/ Displacements/ Problem of the Death of Cultures/ Types of Culture Change/ Subsistence and Population Changes/ Fasion Change/ Variable Patterns of Motivation for Animal Breeding/ Labile Social Structures/ Cultural Taboo in Hawaii/ Change through Organized Religion/ Resistance to Diffusion/ Marginal Cultures/ ..

Genres: Anthropology, Cultural

252 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1963

About the author

Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his Ph.D. under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He was also the first professor appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He played an integral role in the early days of its Museum of Anthropology, where he served as Director from 1909 through 1947. Kroeber provided detailed information about Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi people, whom he studied over a period of years. He was the father of the acclaimed novelist, poet, and writer of short stories Ursula K. Le Guin.

Reviews

[TK Keanini · Rating 5 out of 5]

My interest in Anthropolgy is from the perspective of trying to understands patterns of the whole system: technical and social. Again, I look to books published long ago for some answers. This book was first published in 1963 and might be a little hard to find.