ABSTRACT
Classic anthropology is Bennett''s label for the work produced by anthropologists between 1915 and 1955. In this book, Bennett criticises classic anthropology for ne glecting the contemporary world and modern societies. '
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|20 pages
Interdisciplinary Research and the Concept of Culture
With an Epilogue concerning Chapters 2 and 3
chapter 5|28 pages
The Plains Indian Sun Dance: Leslie Spier’s Historical Reconstruction, and Functionalist Research by Others
With a Supplement: A Review of Subsequent Researches on the Sun Dance
chapter 6|38 pages
Interpretations of Pueblo Indian Culture by Laura Thompson, Esther Goldfrank, Dorothy Eggan, and Others
With Two Supplements:
chapter 7|28 pages
Early and Late Functional Analysis: Bronislaw Malinowski’s Baloma: Spirits of the Dead and Clyde Kluckhohn’s Navaho Witchcraft
With a Supplement: Some Subsequent Studies of Witchcraft with Special Reference to Attempts to Distinguish between Social, Cultural, and Psychological Phenomena
chapter 8|20 pages
A Problem in Social Organization: The Use of Kinship as an Organizing Principle for Instrumental Activities
Co-authored with Leo A. Despres With an Epilogue, 1996
chapter 12|44 pages
Applied and Action Anthropology: Problems of Ideology and Intervention
With a Supplement: The Career of Sol Tax and the Genesis of Action Anthropology
chapter 13|20 pages
The “Famous Lady Anthropologists”: Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead
With a Supplement: A Note on the Critique of Benedict’s Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Japanese Scholars
