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Human Thought and Social Organization

Anthropology on a New Plane

By: Murray J. Leaf,Dwight Read

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Human Thought and Social Organization

Anthropology on a New Plane

By: Murray J. Leaf,Dwight Read

Human beings have two outstanding characteristics compared to all other species: the apparently enormous elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism and the elaboration of our forms of social organization. The view taken in Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane is that these are intimately interconnected. To understand this connection, the book compares the structure of the systems of thought that organizations are built upon with the organizational basis of human thinking as such. An experimental method is used, leading to a new science of the structure of human social organizations in two senses. First, it gives rise to a new kind of ethnology that has the combination of empirical solidity and formal analytical rigor associated with the “paradigmatic” sciences. Second, it makes evident that social organizations have distinctive properties and require distinctive explanations of a sort that cannot be reduced to the explanations drawn from, or grounded in, these other sciences. Human social organizations are created by people using systems of ideas with very specific logical properties. This book describes what these idea-systems are with an unbroken chain of analysis that begins with field elicitation, and continues by working out their most fundamental, logico-mathematical generative elements. This enables us to see precisely how these idea systems are used to generate organizations that give pattern to ongoing behavior. The book shows how organizations are objectified by community members through symbolic representations that provide them with shared conceptions of organizations, roles, or relations that they see each other as participating in. The case for this constructive process being pan-Homo sapiens is described, spanning all human communities from the Upper Paleolithic to today, and from the most seemingly primitive Australian tribes to modern-day America and India. While focusing primarily on kinship, Human Thought and Social Organization shows how the analysis applies with equal precision to other social areas ranging from farming to political factionalism.

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Lexington Books

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0739170295

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9780739170298

Introduction to the Science of Kinship

By: Murray J. Leaf,Dwight Read

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Introduction to the Science of Kinship

By: Murray J. Leaf,Dwight Read

In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read show how humans use specific systems of social ideas to organize their kinship relations and illustrate what this implies for the science of human social organization. Leaf and Read explain that every human society has multiple social organizations, each of which is associated with a distinct vocabulary. This vocabulary is associated with interrelated definitions of social roles and relations. These roles and relations have four specific logical properties: reciprocity, transitivity, boundedness, and imaginary spatial dimensionality. These properties allow individuals to use them in communication to create ongoing, agreed-upon, organizations. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and mathematics.

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337

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793632383

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9781793632388

Artifact Classification

A Conceptual and Methodological Approach

By: Dwight W Read

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Artifact Classification

A Conceptual and Methodological Approach

By: Dwight W Read

Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. He then offers a methodology for producing classifications that are both salient to the cultural groups that produced them and relevant for establishing cultural categories and timelines for the archaeologist attempting to understand the relationship between material culture and ideational culture of ancient societies. This volume is valuable to upper level students and professional archaeologists across the discipline.

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364

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Taylor & Francis

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1315433486

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9781315433486

IBM i 7.1 Technical Overview with Technology Refresh Updates

By: Justin C. Haase,Dwight Harrison,Adam Lukaszewicz,David Painter,Tracy Schramm,Jiri Sochr,IBM Redbooks

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IBM i 7.1 Technical Overview with Technology Refresh Updates

By: Justin C. Haase,Dwight Harrison,Adam Lukaszewicz,David Painter,Tracy Schramm,Jiri Sochr,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a technical overview of the features, functions, and enhancements available in IBM i 7.1, including all the Technology Refresh (TR) levels from TR1 to TR7. It provides a summary and brief explanation of the many capabilities and functions in the operating system. It also describes many of the licensed programs and application development tools that are associated with IBM i. The information provided in this book is useful for clients, IBM Business Partners, and IBM service professionals who are involved with planning, supporting, upgrading, and implementing IBM i 7.1 solutions.

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952

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IBM Redbooks

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0738440116

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9780738440118

How Culture Makes Us Human

Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies

By: Dwight W Read

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How Culture Makes Us Human

Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies

By: Dwight W Read

What separates modern humans from our primate cousins—are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an evolutionary odyssey from our primate beginnings through the development of culture and social organization. He assesses the two major trends in this field: one that sees us as a logical culmination of primate evolution, arguing that the rudiments of culture exist in primates and even magpies, and another that views the human transition as so radical that the primate model provides no foundation for understanding human dynamics. Expertly synthesizing a wide body of evidence from the anthropological and life sciences in accessible prose, Read’s book will interest a broad readership from experts to undergraduate students and the general public.

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284

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Routledge

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1315427230

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9781315427232

Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo

By: Dwight P. Lanmon,Lorraine Welling Lanmon

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Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo

By: Dwight P. Lanmon,Lorraine Welling Lanmon

This fascinating rediscovery of Josephine Foard highlights her work at Laguna Pueblo beginning in 1899 and her efforts to improve and market pueblo pottery for the Lagunas' economic benefit.

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UNM Press

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0826343074

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9780826343079

Journal of the American Oriental Society

Vol. 9

By: Edward E. Salisbury,William Dwight Whitney,James Hadley,Ezra Abbot,Arnold Guyot

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Journal of the American Oriental Society

Vol. 9

By: Edward E. Salisbury,William Dwight Whitney,James Hadley,Ezra Abbot,Arnold Guyot

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385112052

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9783385112056

ARTIFACT CLASSIFICATION

A CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

By: Dwight W Read

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ARTIFACT CLASSIFICATION

A CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

By: Dwight W Read

Dwight Read offers a methodology for producing systematic classifications of objects that are both salient to the cultural groups that produced them and relevant for establishing cultural categories and timelines for archaeologists.

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Left Coast Press

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1598741039

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9781598741032

Book's by Dwight W Read

Human Thought and Social Organization

Human Thought and Social Organization

Introduction to the Science of Kinship

Introduction to the Science of Kinship

Artifact Classification

Artifact Classification

IBM i 7.1 Technical Overview with Technology Refresh Updates

IBM i 7.1 Technical Overview with Technology Refresh Updates

How Culture Makes Us Human

How Culture Makes Us Human

Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo

Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo

Journal of the American Oriental Society

Journal of the American Oriental Society

ARTIFACT CLASSIFICATION

ARTIFACT CLASSIFICATION

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