A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays - 9780415262514

Taylor & Francis

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