ABSTRACT
Published, posthumously, this volume is both a summing up and a reformulation of Malinowski's functional theory of culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |144 pages
A Scientific Theory of Culture
chapter |4 pages
Culture as the Subject of Scientific Investigation
chapter |8 pages
A Minimum Definition of Science for the Humanist
chapter |21 pages
Concepts and Methods of Anthropology
chapter |7 pages
What is Culture?
chapter |9 pages
Theory of Organized Behavior
chapter |15 pages
The Concrete Isolates of Organized Behavior
chapter |8 pages
The Functional Analysis of Culture
chapter |6 pages
The Derivation of Cultural Needs
chapter |29 pages
Basic Needs and Cultural Responses
chapter |12 pages
The Nature of Derived Needs
chapter |5 pages
The Integrative Imperatives of Human Culture
chapter |8 pages
The Instrumentally Implemented Vital Sequence
part |32 pages
The Functional Theory
chapter |3 pages
Embryology and Obstetrics
chapter |5 pages
General Axioms of Functionalism
chapter |3 pages
Function Defined
chapter |2 pages
The Rough Approach to Functionalism
chapter |2 pages
The Legitimate Isolates of Cultural Analysis
chapter |6 pages
The Structure of an Institution
chapter |3 pages
The Concept of Function
chapter |4 pages
The Theory of Needs
chapter |2 pages
Conclusions
part |45 pages
Sir James George Frazer: A Biographical Appreciation
