10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERORGANICIST»
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Classic Anthropology: Critical Essays, 1944-1996
His generally superorganicist or "American" article on "Culture" in the
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences is sufficient evidence of this. One of the
earliest expositions of an analytical scheme in Malinowski's writings appears in
the closing ...
John William Bennett, Leo A. Despres, Michio Nagai
2
Theory In Anthropol Liban
It is interesting to note that one of the staunchest adherents of the superorganicist
position, Leslie A. White, in one of his more recent state ments, defines culture as
a “class of things and events, dependent upon symboling, considered in an ...
ROBERT A MANNERS, DAVID KAPLAN, Senior Labor Market Specialist David Kaplan, PhD, 2013
3
Totems and Teachers: Key Figures in the History of Anthropology
That is to say, Kroeber is a superorganicist, an idealist ultimately, and White is a
mechanical materialist; but they have in common that they lack dialectics, and at
critical points you can exchange one method for the other and even one set of ...
It is interesting to note that one of the staunchest adherents of the superorganicist
position, Leslie A. White, in one of his more recent statements, defines culture as
a "class of things and events, dependent upon symboling, considered in an ...
Robert Alan Manners, David Kaplan
5
Worldview Flux: Perplexed Values Among Postmodern Peoples
... anarchy — our own postmodernists laying siege before the gates of
Geography, demanding that we hand over our few living heretic scientists and
superorganicist Berkeleyan humanists. The last siege, which will also, of course,
fail, was so ...
Jim Norwine, Jonathan M. Smith, 2000
6
Evolution and Social Life
... de Chardin to wallow in his fantastic imagery, though it is only fair to note that
his idea of an 'effervescence' of consciousness had long before been
propounded by that other convinced superorganicist, Emile Durkheim (1976[
1915]:216- 19).
7
The ecological transition
We also run the risk of slipping into the deterministic equations of the
superorganicist approach to culture, only now we have moved down off the
superorganic plane on to the organic. For certain theoretical purposes, this
position can be ...
John William Bennett, 1976
8
Control: Sociology's Central Notion
From a superorganicist's perspective, that spirit simply reflected a cultural value,
something unplanned, unanticipated, etc. However, contemplate Joel
Williamson's observations: "The militant South, the military South . . . sprang from
the ...
9
New Racism: Revisiting Researcher Accountabilities
In my view, the question thus does not provide sufficient scope for people to call
to consciousness as an option an alternative conception of culture to the one that
the researchers themselves have associated with the “superorganicist paradigm
...
10
Approaches to Language: Anthropological Issues
The coincidence of the biophysical nature of man in all aspects of his
sociocultural life is undeniable, only if the superorganicist fallacy is rejected (
Bidney 1967: 34-39). It is necessary, however, to indicate where the coincidental
effect occurs; ...
William C. McCormack, Stephen A. Wurm, 1978
