Author: Goldschmidt, Walter
Title: Comparative Functionalism. An Essay in Anthropological Theory
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1966. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 21x14cm, xiii, 149 pp, Slight corner bumps.. Name on flyleaf,some light spotting to binding & page-edges,VG. ¶ Contents: The Malinowskian Dilemma: Functional Studies; The Comparison of Institutions; Statistical Comparisons; The Context of Social Systems: The Psychobiological Character of Man; Ecosystem; The Temporal Dimension; Scheme for a Model of Society; Functional Requisites & Institutional Response: Institutions of Sharing; Functional Restraints in Sexuality and Procreation; A Reexamination of the Nayar; Contingent Functions: Statecraft; Conclusions.

Keywords: Anthropological Theory, Social Anthropology, Functionalism, , , , , ,