General anthropology : a brief survey of physical, culture and social anthropology

By:

Jacobs,Melville

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York; Barnes & Noble; 1963Description: 338pSubject(s):

Anthropology

DDC classification:

306 JAC

Summary: Anthropology has always delighted the intellectually curious. For a long time its appeal was primarily to lovers of the exotic. Accounts of strange customs, divergent sex practices, bizarre magical and religious behavior, and new kinds of arts have fascinated young and old alike. Often, descriptions of the modes of life of non-European peoples have functioned as escapist literature, and cults of primitivism have been based on the behavior and on the arts of natives other lands. Great spurts in intellectual and artistic progress have occurred during periods of exploration and culture contact, when discovery of the ways of other peoples has helped to dispel smugness and provincialism and has served as yeast to social change.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Anthropology has always delighted the intellectually curious. For a long time its appeal was primarily to lovers of the exotic. Accounts of strange customs, divergent sex practices, bizarre magical and religious behavior, and new kinds of arts have fascinated young and old alike. Often, descriptions of the modes of life of non-European peoples have functioned as escapist literature, and cults of primitivism have been based on the behavior and on the arts of natives other lands. Great spurts in intellectual and artistic progress have occurred during periods of exploration and culture contact, when discovery of the ways of other peoples has helped to dispel smugness and provincialism and has served as yeast to social change.

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