Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology - Softcover

Harris, Alfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0202308618 ISBN 13: 9780202308616

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures are intended to commemorate both the man and his work the latter being viewed as having provided an admirably broad and substantial base for anthropologists of later generations to build upon, as they have done and continue to do in diverse ways.

Professor Goodenough's work, in the past and in this book particularly, emphasizes the vitality and fruitfulness of Morgan's contributions. Not only do these lectures carry forward Morgan's interests in kinship; they reflect as well his concern for comparative studies undertaken with the aim of ultimately understanding mankind. Moreover, Professor Goodenough has elucidated recent developments in the collection, analysis, and presentation of cultural data in ways that make it easier for all of us to see how his methods (in themselves specialized) can broaden and deepen our understanding of culture and of man.

Morgan, himself a pioneer in method, would surely have been an attentive auditor-and discussant-at Professor Goodenough's Lectures, and in his seminars and the less formal events in which he participated while at Rochester, and to which he contributed so much. This volume is an expanded version of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures delivered at the University of Rochester, April 2 to 11, 1968.

Alfred Harris was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Rochester. He served as the chair of the anthropology from 1964-1971 and he was well known for being the editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures.

About this title

Book Description:

How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study.

About the Author:

Ward H. Goodenough is currently a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and is also the consulting curator of the department of Micronesian Ethnology at the University Museum. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0202308618
• ISBN 13: 9780202308616
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 173