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How Culture Works [Hardcover]

Paul Bohannan (Author)


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0029045053 978-0029045053 September 1, 1994 1ST
Provides a step-by-step blueprint of cultural dynamics, defining the boundaries between matter and life, life and culture, and animal culture versus human culture. With all these basic concepts the author sets the stage for a renewal of anthropological enquiry.


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  • Hardcover: 217 pages
  • Publisher: Free Press; 1ST edition (September 1, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0029045053
  • ISBN-13: 978-0029045053
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,925,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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People are subject to constraints that arise from the rules of matter, the rules of life, and the rules of culture. Read the first page
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excluded monster, cultural traps, culture traps, action chains, rubbish theory, running scenarios, physical disasters, biological disasters, cultural dissonance, event chain
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United States, Ghost Dance, Michael Thompson, Native American, Prince William Sound, Cold War
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