Men and Cultures : Selected Papers of the Fifth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Preface Contents Papers Delivered to the Fifth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Introduction The Hiawatha Wampum Belt of the Iroquois League for Peace: A Symbol for the International Congress of Anthropology Section I: Current Status of Anthropological and Ethnological Studies Current Trends in the Development of American Ethnology Recent Developments in the Study of the Prehistory of Western Asia Anthropology and the Smithsonian Institution Anthropologie Physique en U.R.S.S. Summary of Paleo-Anthropological Investigation in the U.S.S.R. Recent Trends in British Social Anthropology Trends in European Prehistory Recent Developments in Ethnological Theory in Europe Recent Developments and Trends in Ethnological Studies in China Current Trends in Ethnography in the U.S.S.R. Recent Developments in American Archeology Recent Developments in the Field of Genetics Section II: Theory and Method Individual Variation in Culture Conflict and Congruence in Anthropological Theory Culture and Human Behavior Anthropology and Art Zum Problem der Konstanz in der Ethnologie A Microcultural Analysis of Time Thoughts on Methodology for Comprehension of an Oral Literature Recreative Behavior and Culture Change The Use of Typology in Anthropological Theory Archeological Typology in Theory and Practice Jazz Choreology Methodological Problems of Free Doll Play as an Ethnographic Field Technique A New Framework for Studies of Folklore and Survivals A System for Describing and Analyzing the Regulation of Coordinated Activity Typology in the Area of Social Organization Aesthetics in “Primitive” Societies Acculturation Withdrawal, An Early Means of Dealing with the Supernatural Subsystem Typology in Linguistics The Ethnic Dimension of Human History: Pattern or Patterns of Culture? Section III: Culture Change and Culture History Some Similarities between Ards of the Balkans, Scandinavia, and Anterior Asia, and Their Methodological Significance Slash-and-burn Agriculture: A Closer Look at its Implications for Settlement Patterns Northwest Coast—Northeast Asiatic Similarities : A New Hypothesis Techniques of Preparing Manioc Flour as a Key to Culture History in Tropical America Culture Stability and Change among the Seminoles of Florida The Evolution of Status Systems in Polynesia Les Tendances Modernes de l’evolution des Sociétés Mélanésiennes (Nouvelles-Hébrides et Nouvelle-Calédonie) A Re-Evaluation of the Cultural Position of the Nootka Theoretical Considerations Concerning the Problem of Pre-Columbian Contacts between the Old World and the New Ethnology and High Civilization, Exemplified by Ancient Egypt Rivalry and Superiority: Two Dominant Features of the Sumerian Culture Pattern Plow Complex, Culture Change and Cultural Stability Three Hundred Years of Chukchi Ethnic Identity North European Shamanism The Assumed Early Mediterranean Influence among the Kuanyama Ambo Bantu of South West Africa Irrigation, Settlement Pattern, and Social Organization The Christian Hymnology of the North American Indians The Acculturative Process in Jamaican Revivalism Plough and Field Shape A Umatilla Prophet Cult : An Episode in Culture Change Cart-using Indians of the American Plains The Study of the Early History of Agriculture in the Territory of the U.S.S.R. in 1945–1955 The Automobile in Contemporary Navaho Culture History and Ethnohistory, and A Case in Point Section IV: Ethnography Les Origines Ethniques de la Population Marocaine Musulmane de Casablanca Intertribal Relations in the Pueblo Kachina Cult Un Complexe Culturel: La Course de Pirogues au Laos The Idoma Court-of-Lineages in Law and Political Structure The Fear in Tapirapé Culture Yoruba Concepts of the Soul A New Ecological Typology of the California Indians Autobiography of A Guatemalan Indian Les Communautés d’Entraide des Bambara du Soudan Français A Comparison of Eastern Keresan and Tewa Kinship Systems Some Reflections on Chiga Ethics Sequence and Structure in Folktales Circumpolar Forest North America as a Modern Culture Area Medicinal Plant and Food use as related to Health and Disease in Coastal Oaxaca Le Concept de Crime en Droit Djarai Aspects de la Royauté Bateke (Moyen-Congo) The Role of Music in Western Apache Culture Double Descent in an Ibo Village-Group La Notion de Mana dans la Culture Haïtienne The Calf Sacrifice of the Todas of the Nilgiris (South India) Polygamie et ses Particularités Production, Distribution and Power in a Primitive Society Tipi di Cultura nel Paraguay The Maintenance of Unity and Distinctiveness by a Philippine Peasant Village Contrasting Patterns of Carolinian Population Distribution in the Marianas The Birhor (The Little Nomadic Tribe of India) The Inter-Relations of Castes and Ethnic Groups in Nepal Section V: Archaeology Human Types and Prehistoric Cultures at Ksâr ’Akil, Lebanon Culture Change in Europe at the Start of the Second Millennium B.C.: A Contribution to the Indo-European Problem Rocker-Stamped Pottery in the Old and New World North Mexico and the Correlation of Mesoamerican and Southwestern Cultural Sequences Paleo-Eskimo in Disko Bay, West Greenland The Plains Archaic Concept Prehistoric Culture Sequences in the Eastern Arctic as Elucidated by Stratified Sites at Igloolik Archaism and Revival on the South Coast of Peru The Preclassic Ceramic Sequence of Huapalcalco, of Tulancingo, Hgo The Mixteca-Puebla Concept in Mesoamerican Archeology: A Re-examination El Patio mas Antiguo de Mesoamerica Cultural Unity and Diversification in Peruvian Archaeology The Gulf Coastal Plain in North American Prehistory The Paleo-Indian Culture Succession in the Central High Plains of Texas and New Mexico Western Siberian Archeology, An Interpretative Summary Section VI: Physical Anthropology Physical and Psychological Factors in Culture Growth The Pattern of Development of African Children A Study of the Rotation of the Occipital Region in the Neandertal and Sapiens Skulls El Poblamiento Paleolitico de España Small Isolated Human Breeding Populations and Their Significance for the Process of Racial Differentiation La Paléodémographie, Base Nouvelle de l’Analyse Anthropologique Significance of Recent Primatology for Physical Anthropology New Research in German Forensic Anthropology Partial Volumes and Surface Areas of the Human Body Changes in the Skull Features of the Japanese People from Ancient to Modem Times Primate Evolution and Human Behavior Les Proportions de la Tête Chez les Français A Study of the Racial Morphology of the French Population The Evolutionary Taxonomy of the Hominidae in the Light of the Piltdown Investigation Section VII: Applied Anthropology Applied Anthropology in the Belgian Territories in Africa (An Experience of Integration of the Tribal Institutions into the Pattern of the New Social Action in Central Africa) De Quelques Difficultés dues aux Différences de Cultures, Rencontrées dans les Missions d’Assistance Technique Applied Anthropology, Community Welfare, and Human Conservation Section VIII: Linguistics The Southwest Project in Comparative Psycholinguistics: A Preliminary Report The Urbanization of the Guarani Language—A Problem in Language and Culture The General Classification of Central and South American Languages The Origin of the Hausa Language Tonality in Efik Signal Communication and Folklore Author Index