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Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village

Social Organization Reconsidered

By: Murray J. Leaf

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Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village

Social Organization Reconsidered

By: Murray J. Leaf

This is the first major study of a Sikh community in Central Punjab to appear in the modern anthropological literature. Perhaps because this historically and economically important people and region have been so long neglected, they present certain important contradictions or paradoxes in terms of commonly accepted generalization about Indian village life. Thus, the villagers describe their Sikh religion as Hindu, yet insist that it forbids observance of caste restrictions. They are sincere in their beliefs and scrupulous in their performance to ritual, yet retain caste identifications and in certain contexts use caste terms for address. They have a strong factional organization, but it cuts across both kin and caste lines; moreover, many villagers remain aloof from factions, and those sho do belong frequently "forget" their quarrels and cooperate. Finally, the villagers are intensely concerned with trade and profit-making, yet resort ot many practices in a labor-intensive system that scholars have termed characteristic of a "subsistence" or "traditional" economy as distinct from a "market" or a "traditional" one. Instead of attempting to resolve these contradictions or to attribute them to a process of social breakdown, Leaf takes the view that they represent a stable, pervasive condition of social life. He capitalizes on their clarity in a particular village to draw attention to two elements of social theory that he regards as of general importance. His overall strategy of analysis places each seemingly contradictory element in its proper context, and then ascertains how these contexts are related to one another and to the behavior of the villagers. The first of the theoretical concepts that he develops for this purpose is a modified version of the idea of a "message source," used in information theory, permitting observation and isolation of socially defined conventions that result from behavior and affect it in turn. The second concept is a view of behavior as individual actions that respond to such social constraints, obtain support, and ultimately feed back into the social system--a cyclical model of social communication on an individual level. Use of these two concepts sets aside "total system theory," which has attracted mounting criticism by social and cultural anthropologists, in favor of what may be termed a "multiple system theory." Two important practical results of this shift in perspective are general heightening of empirical accuracy of analysis and an enhance insights into the ways that dynamica change, cooperation, and competition inhere in all social organization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

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0520312082

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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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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793632383

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Human Thought and Social Organization

Anthropology on a New Plane

By: Murray J. Leaf,Dwight W. Read

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Human Thought and Social Organization

Anthropology on a New Plane

By: Murray J. Leaf,Dwight W. Read

Two characteristics of human beings as a species are: the elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism, and the pluralistic nature of our systems of social organization. This book shows how these two characteristics are related by determining the conceptual structures that are fundamental to human thought and social organization.

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Lexington Books

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0739170287

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9780739170281

The Anthropology of Western Religions

Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies

By: Murray J. Leaf

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Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies

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The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, and kinship. The Anthropology of Western Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world’s major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Western religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support.

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0739192396

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An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy

The Community of Scholars in America

By: Murray J. Leaf

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An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy

The Community of Scholars in America

By: Murray J. Leaf

This anthropological study of university governance organizations has four main purposes. It aims to describe the principles of effective faculty governance organizations and shared governance; to help mobilize opposition to a large and extremely well-funded system of political attacks aimed at destroying faculty governance organizations; to demonstrate the value of the theory of human social organizations; and to enable universities to become more effective in generating the intellectual advances we must make in order to solve the current global crisis of sustainability and political instability. Political democracy depends on an educated public, and academic democracy is integral to producing such knowledge.

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Springer

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3319925881

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Human Organizations and Social Theory

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Adaptation

By: Murray J. Leaf

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Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Adaptation

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In the 1930s, George Herbert Mead and other leading social scientists established the modern empirical analysis of social interaction and communication, enabling theories of cognitive development, language acquisition, interaction, government, law and legal processes, and the social construction of the self. However, they could not provide a comparably empirical analysis of human organization. The theory in this book fills in the missing analysis of organizations and specifies more precisely the pragmatic analysis of communication with an adaptation of information theory to ordinary unmediated communications. The study also provides the theoretical basis for understanding the success of pragmatically grounded public policies, from the New Deal through the postwar reconstruction of Europe and Japan to the ongoing development of the European Union, in contrast to the persistent failure of positivistic and Marxist policies and programs.

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University of Illinois Press

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025209171X

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Textbook of Natural Medicine - E-Book

By: Joseph E. Pizzorno,Michael T. Murray

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Textbook of Natural Medicine - E-Book

By: Joseph E. Pizzorno,Michael T. Murray

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Complementary & Integrative Health**

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323523803

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The Anthropology of Eastern Religions

Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies

By: Murray J. Leaf

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Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies

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The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their ideas and organizations influence many other important institutions, including government, law, education, and kinship. Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world’s major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind eastern religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support.

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0739192418

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9780739192412

Flora of the Sydney Region

A Complete Revision

By: Belinda Jane Pellow,Murray James Henwood,Roger Charles Carolin

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Flora of the Sydney Region

A Complete Revision

By: Belinda Jane Pellow,Murray James Henwood,Roger Charles Carolin

The fifth edition Flora of the Sydney Region is the definitive technical guide to the identification of wild plants in one of the world's botanical heartlands. The Flora covers an area of coastal New South Wales stretching from Newcastle to Nowra and west to Lithgow. This comprehensive treatment contains diagnostic keys and descriptions that make it possible for the reader to identify any of the 3,000 indigenous or naturalised plant species found in this botanically diverse region. The identification keys efficiently guide the reader through those plant characteristics necessary to arrive at the correct scientific name. The identification process is further aided by a glossary and an extensive index of scientific and common plant names. Species descriptions include habitat details and flowering times. An instructive introduction provides support for the novice botanist. When first published in 1963, Flora of the Sydney Region was the only complete regional Flora in Australia. This fully revised edition of the Flora incorporates the wealth of botanical research which has taken place since the publication of the fourth edition in 1994. As a trusty field guide and authoritative desktop reference, it will be a constant companion to environmental consultants, amateur and professional botanists, ecologists, bushwalkers, bush regenerators and teaching institutions.

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1920899308

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An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy

The Community of Scholars in America

By: Murray J. Leaf

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Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village

Social Organization Reconsidered

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Social Organization Reconsidered

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Human Organizations and Social Theory

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Adaptation

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Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village

Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village

Introduction to the Science of Kinship

Introduction to the Science of Kinship

Human Thought and Social Organization

Human Thought and Social Organization

The Anthropology of Western Religions

The Anthropology of Western Religions

An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy

An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy

Human Organizations and Social Theory

Human Organizations and Social Theory

Textbook of Natural Medicine - E-Book

Textbook of Natural Medicine - E-Book

The Anthropology of Eastern Religions

The Anthropology of Eastern Religions

Flora of the Sydney Region

Flora of the Sydney Region

An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy

An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy

Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village

Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village

Human Organizations and Social Theory

Human Organizations and Social Theory

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