The concept and dynamics of culture

Frontmatter -- Introduction / BERNARDI, BERNARDO -- PART ONE: The Concept of Culture -- An Analysis of the Concept of Culture / VERMEERSCH, ETIENNE -- The Concept of Culture: A New Presentation / BERNARDI, BERNARDO -- The Meaning of Sociocultural / FREILICH, MORRIS -- The Concept of Culture in the System of Modern Sciences / MARKARIAN, E. S. -- A Unified Theory of Society-Field Aspect / SENGUPTA, D. -- PART TWO: The Dynamics of Culture -- Anthropological Criteria for a Notion of Progress / PAPADOPOULLOS, THEODORE -- The Segregative and Integrative Functions of Culture / TOKAREV, S. A. -- Ecosystem Analogies in Cultural Ecology / BENNETT, JOHN W. -- Energy and Culture / RUYLE, EUGENE E. -- Anthropology and Energology / VARAGNAC, A. -- PART THREE: The Epistemology of Culture -- Meaning in Culture / HANSON, F. ALLAN -- Do Anthropologists Explain? / SARANA, GOPALA -- The Contribution of Cultural Anthropology to Scholarship / BELIN-MILLERON, JEAN -- Economic Anthropology and Developmental Theories / SABELLI, FABRIZIO -- Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology / BERTHOUD, GERALD -- PART FOUR: The Systematic Study of Culture -- Study of Mans Horizon-Creation: A Perspective for Cultural Anthropology / HORVATH, TIBOR -- The Object of Ethnology / BIANCHI, UGO -- The Concept of Integral Anthropology / WOLF, JOSEPH -- Integration Processes in Complex Societies / HANSSEN, B. -- Panculture: A Hominization-Derived Processual Taxonomy from Murdock's Universal Basics / BURGER, HENRY G. -- Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values / WELTE, C. R. -- Anthropologists and Their Terminologies / NZIMIRO, IKENNA -- PART FIVE: Cultural Differentiations -- Toward a Theory of American Culture / AVILA, WANDA -- On the Scientific Content of the National Character Concept / BAGRAMOV, E. A. -- Rethinking ¿¿pi Social Organization / FOSTER, STEPHEN WILLIAM -- Religio-Anthropological Depth Research / PENTIKÄINEN, JUHA -- Human Coexistence and Culture / RADWANSKI, PIERRE A. -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects