ABSTRACT
This volume illustrates Melford Spiro's explorations of key relationships among culture, society, and human nature. He addresses such fundamental issues as the limitations of cultural relativism, the problem of explanation in the social sciences, and the importance of a comparative approach to the study of social and cultural system.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|106 pages
Culture and Human Nature
part II|78 pages
Functional Analysis
part III|117 pages
Religion and Myth