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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Human beings have two outstanding characteristics compared to all other species: the apparently enormous elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism and the elaboration of our forms of social organization. The view taken in Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane is that these are intimately interconnected. To understand this connection, the book compares the structure of the systems of thought that organizations are built upon with the organizational basis of human thinking as such. An experimental method is used, leading to a new science of the structure of human social organizations in two senses. First, it gives rise to a new kind of ethnology that has the combination of empirical solidity and formal analytical rigor associated with the "paradigmatic" sciences. Second, it makes evident that social organizations have distinctive properties and require distinctive explanations of a sort that cannot be reduced to the explanations drawn from, or grounded in, these other sciences.Human social organizations are created by people using systems of ideas with very specific logical properties. This book describes what these idea-systems are with an unbroken chain of analysis that begins with field elicitation, and continues by working out their most fundamental, logico-mathematical generative elements. This enables us to see precisely how these idea systems are used to generate organizations that give pattern to ongoing behavior. The book shows how organizations are objectified by community members through symbolic representations that provide them with shared conceptions of organizations, roles, or relations that they see each other as participating in. The case for this constructive process being pan-Homo sapiens is described, spanning all human communities from the Upper Paleolithic to today, and from the most seemingly primitive Australian tribes to modern-day America and India. While focusing primarily on kinship, Human Thought and Social Organization shows how the analysis applies with equal precision to other social areas ranging from farming to political factionalism.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL Articles, disbound from journal; no covers; in very good condition. Journal.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 20, No 4, pp. 761-790, Illus, 4to, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 318 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing Stated. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $6.50 And With Slight Wear And Browning. Essays, First Published In Saturday Review 1966-1968.

Audio Cassettes. Condition: Very Good. (3 Audio Cassettes - Unabridged - 4 1/2 Hours) -- Part 1 -- Other than box showing some wear, plactic cases and tapes perfect --.

Audio Cassettes. Condition: Very Good. (3 Audio Cassettes - Unabridged - 4 1/2 Hours) -- Part 2 -- Other than box showing some wear, plactic cases and tapes perfect.

Audio Cassettes. Condition: As New. (3 Audio Cassettes - Unabridged - 4 1/2 Hours) -- Part 3 -- As New in original shrinkwrap.

Condition: New.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 237 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 329-364 81-91 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLVI Number 41 complete issue. First edition. The received view regarding the centrality of kinship terminologies in kinship systems assumes that terminologies are genealogically constrained. This assumption ignores the generative logic of kinship terminologies, hence the need for a new paradigm. It is argued that kinship systems are based on two conceptual systems: the logic of genealogical tracing and the logic of kin-term products. Structural implications of the generative logic of terminological structures are discussed, including the logical basis for the difference between descriptive and classificatory terminologies and transformations that may be made between different kinship terminologies through simple changes in structural equations. Connection between ethnographic observations and structural properties are identified. Condition: Light edge wear with bumped corners, head page ends soiled else very good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. name on side of pages. Hardcover book no dust jacket. Light wear to book cover and book edges.